1 00:00:30,62 --> 00:00:32,48 Independent media is the hope. 2 00:00:38,35 --> 00:00:39,33 Tonight on. 3 00:01:41,71 --> 00:01:44,91 Our keynote speaker today is Norman Solomon he's 4 00:01:44,93 --> 00:01:50,25 a clown columnist on media and politics and the founder and president of the 5 00:01:50,26 --> 00:01:54,69 Institute for Public Accuracy such as think of that name Think of the words 6 00:01:55,02 --> 00:01:59,98 carefully chosen. For group that use of founded in work with in one thousand nine 7 00:01:59,98 --> 00:02:05,98 hundred seven Institute for Public Accuracy. He's written trial books on topics 8 00:02:05,99 --> 00:02:11,57 ranging from the effects of nuclear radiation to our current warfare state 9 00:02:13,33 --> 00:02:14,22 but he's also 10 00:02:14,23 --> 00:02:20,81 a longstanding activist and if you read his latest book made love got war I think 11 00:02:20,85 --> 00:02:27,54 you will I think it's safe to say he has been arrested more times than. The 12 00:02:27,55 --> 00:02:33,63 Republican running for governor probably voted. By 13 00:02:33,64 --> 00:02:40,18 a long shot you will entertain questions that down of his talk. 14 00:02:41,22 --> 00:02:45,45 You'll find cards at each table so please write your questions and we'll pick them 15 00:02:45,46 --> 00:02:52,00 up partway through the talk Norman Solomon as has also graciously brought 16 00:02:52,78 --> 00:02:53,01 quite 17 00:02:53,02 --> 00:02:59,99 a few books and in the back corner which he is going to donate all sales 18 00:03:00,00 --> 00:03:00,87 to P.S.R. 19 00:03:02,16 --> 00:03:08,26 Which we really appreciate and. Were asking twenty dollars but 20 00:03:08,46 --> 00:03:13,53 he said he doesn't want to go home with any book so any donation will will get you 21 00:03:13,55 --> 00:03:20,48 a book so that I'll be in the back of the room I'd 22 00:03:20,49 --> 00:03:26,63 like to quote from Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the fish 23 00:03:27,48 --> 00:03:34,35 about this latest book Norman Solomon has consistently done all he can be 24 00:03:34,46 --> 00:03:34,77 to be 25 00:03:34,78 --> 00:03:41,61 a public voice for those who have no voice those who fight and those who die in war 26 00:03:42,51 --> 00:03:47,86 and he does it with excellent interesting and intelligent style something terribly 27 00:03:47,87 --> 00:03:54,01 lacking in today's media everything it does brings nourishment to America's modern 28 00:03:54,01 --> 00:03:58,68 . Wasteland Please welcome Norman Solomon. 29 00:04:07,55 --> 00:04:14,00 Thanks very much. Among the words beautifully reverberating in the air 30 00:04:14,30 --> 00:04:21,27 here are. Joy and pain when we get to gather with kindred spirits 31 00:04:21,28 --> 00:04:23,38 as we are doing tonight there's certainly 32 00:04:23,39 --> 00:04:29,41 a lot of joy there and knowing our historical moment that continues and in some 33 00:04:29,42 --> 00:04:31,13 ways deepens there's 34 00:04:31,17 --> 00:04:37,85 a lot of pain here as well as we strive to be more conscious and engage 35 00:04:37,86 --> 00:04:44,23 more in creating the future instead of just consuming it and know that. Bumper 36 00:04:44,24 --> 00:04:48,38 stickers are kind of in disrepute these days generally for good reasons but I'm 37 00:04:48,39 --> 00:04:49,05 going to cite 38 00:04:49,06 --> 00:04:56,05 a couple one is. Tinted red white and blue and it says These Colors Don't 39 00:04:56,06 --> 00:05:02,92 Run the World. And in many quarters in our country of course 40 00:05:02,93 --> 00:05:03,30 that's 41 00:05:03,34 --> 00:05:10,53 a bitter pill to swallow. Another one says I 42 00:05:10,54 --> 00:05:17,50 love my country but we've got to start seeing other people. And 43 00:05:17,82 --> 00:05:20,78 you know that as a mall that over you know for quite 44 00:05:20,79 --> 00:05:24,66 a while I assumed that had to do only with foreign policy and I realize it has to 45 00:05:24,67 --> 00:05:31,23 do with seeing across the county across the city across the neighborhood sometimes 46 00:05:31,24 --> 00:05:35,38 a real challenge and it was Georgia O'Keeffe said Does anybody really ever see 47 00:05:35,39 --> 00:05:39,73 a flower right it's a challenge and certainly a challenge to see people in 48 00:05:39,74 --> 00:05:46,39 a way that's meaningful in humanistic terms I think it was. Darwin almost said 49 00:05:46,49 --> 00:05:50,61 Darrow Clarence Darrow I think with Darwin Charles Darwin who said that it's 50 00:05:50,66 --> 00:05:56,14 conscience that most distinguishes human beings from other animals. And I got to 51 00:05:56,15 --> 00:05:57,82 assume that also has 52 00:05:57,83 --> 00:06:02,96 a lot to do with empathy our capacity our capacity not always realized to put it 53 00:06:02,97 --> 00:06:09,57 mildly Tempus empathize sufficiently to exercise conscience since so much of our 54 00:06:09,58 --> 00:06:15,97 culture is about obedience if only to stay silent the tacit directive which we are 55 00:06:15,98 --> 00:06:22,61 so good routinely at obeying. We are encouraged to believe in that certainly is 56 00:06:22,62 --> 00:06:28,49 true now or maybe more than ever that in this digital age especially is our 57 00:06:28,50 --> 00:06:32,86 technological prowess and the fruition of our intellectual capacity that is the 58 00:06:32,87 --> 00:06:37,78 most wonderful and deserves the most adulation and fascination 59 00:06:37,79 --> 00:06:44,35 a few years ago when I was going to. The laboratory in 60 00:06:44,36 --> 00:06:49,16 Mexico known as Los Alamos so I got down to Santa Fe area and I Next I need to find 61 00:06:49,17 --> 00:06:54,34 it and so I went through the phone book and I finally found it I found it listed 62 00:06:54,35 --> 00:07:01,13 under the University of California. What better way to not only provide expertise 63 00:07:01,89 --> 00:07:06,25 of the highest caliber but also by reputation an institution of higher learning 64 00:07:06,26 --> 00:07:07,62 that can serve as 65 00:07:07,63 --> 00:07:13,69 a sort of airway for the stench of preparation for global and I lation the 66 00:07:13,70 --> 00:07:16,28 University of California is continuing although now it's in 67 00:07:16,29 --> 00:07:21,72 a partnership with three private. Concerns University of California at Livermore 68 00:07:21,73 --> 00:07:27,46 Los Alamos continue to serve that air with function which is very reassuring if 69 00:07:27,47 --> 00:07:32,10 only tacitly in our society and you only need to ask yourself how often you have 70 00:07:32,11 --> 00:07:37,94 picked up a newspaper or turned into a radio station including public radio or T.V. 71 00:07:38,26 --> 00:07:41,80 In this state and seen the question raised of why is the University of California 72 00:07:42,16 --> 00:07:47,49 helping to run these weapons laboratories that are preparing future technologies 73 00:07:47,50 --> 00:07:51,82 for incineration of the planet we might well we might ask those questions will not 74 00:07:51,83 --> 00:07:55,23 be asked by others they have to be asked by us and 75 00:07:55,24 --> 00:07:59,94 a lot of this of course has to do with technology and how it's used you know Martin 76 00:07:59,95 --> 00:08:04,22 Luther King talked about what he called the phenomenon of guided missiles and 77 00:08:04,23 --> 00:08:09,63 misguided men this is not an old question but it's made ever more new you know when 78 00:08:09,64 --> 00:08:14,87 I got to Los Alamos and I got the the press tour and I was told all the impressive 79 00:08:14,88 --> 00:08:18,96 things and one of them was that by golly in the early one nine hundred forty S. 80 00:08:18,97 --> 00:08:25,64 There were slide rules being used there to prepare the first atomic weaponry 81 00:08:25,65 --> 00:08:29,25 slide rules can you imagine now in the next room the guy says from the P.R. 82 00:08:29,26 --> 00:08:31,68 Department there's 83 00:08:31,83 --> 00:08:37,59 a supercomputer can do ten trillion calculations per second and that is real 84 00:08:37,60 --> 00:08:42,66 progress but something that no computer in the world can tell us and can never be 85 00:08:42,67 --> 00:08:48,65 programmed to tell us on its own of course is what we value most What do we care 86 00:08:48,66 --> 00:08:55,51 about most what are truly not rhetorical but in reality our values. Road of 87 00:08:55,52 --> 00:09:00,61 gold she had many decades ago the German sociologist said the budget is the 88 00:09:00,62 --> 00:09:07,41 skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies early 89 00:09:07,42 --> 00:09:11,16 last year the incoming president he'd only been in the White House 90 00:09:11,17 --> 00:09:15,68 a few months he received a report from the Progressive Caucus of the U.S. 91 00:09:15,69 --> 00:09:20,07 House of Representatives eighty members that held six forms on Capitol Hill in the 92 00:09:20,08 --> 00:09:26,25 spring of two thousand and nine I was able to attend and listen to one of them and 93 00:09:26,26 --> 00:09:31,88 after that study research the Progressive Caucus the largest caucus in the U.S. 94 00:09:31,89 --> 00:09:33,26 Congress a presented 95 00:09:33,27 --> 00:09:38,54 a pool report which was orally presented by Congressman Mike Condit but the 96 00:09:38,80 --> 00:09:43,84 conclusion of the those those forums from the from the Progressive Caucus and he 97 00:09:43,85 --> 00:09:45,17 recommended that U.S. 98 00:09:45,18 --> 00:09:49,17 Spending in Afghanistan be eighty percent nonmilitary and twenty percent military 99 00:09:49,87 --> 00:09:50,71 present came back with 100 00:09:50,72 --> 00:09:54,49 a supplemental package which we were told last year was going to the last one for 101 00:09:54,50 --> 00:09:58,08 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan particularly for as collation of the war in 102 00:09:58,09 --> 00:10:03,36 Afghanistan ninety percent military spending which is what was implemented and I 103 00:10:03,37 --> 00:10:09,93 thought of that one afternoon about fourteen months ago I went with Rick 104 00:10:09,94 --> 00:10:15,50 Reyes who had had his previous visit to Afghanistan in late two thousand and one 105 00:10:15,51 --> 00:10:17,30 with an M. Sixteen in his hand as a U.S. 106 00:10:17,31 --> 00:10:24,15 Marine and Rick went back to Afghanistan and I went with him and we 107 00:10:24,16 --> 00:10:25,17 went to 108 00:10:25,69 --> 00:10:31,87 a refugee camp Helmand Valley refugee camp number five on the outskirts of Kabul 109 00:10:33,33 --> 00:10:36,46 and at that camp we saw I should even call it 110 00:10:36,47 --> 00:10:40,49 a refugee camp as seven hundred families there were some ditches dog there was 111 00:10:40,50 --> 00:10:41,77 a canvas there 112 00:10:41,78 --> 00:10:48,36 a few water pumps that we saw. The food there was obtained through 113 00:10:48,37 --> 00:10:55,14 the grace of Afghan businessmen. And these were people who had been dislodged they 114 00:10:55,15 --> 00:10:59,00 were in they were displaced from the Helmand Province they'd come to the capital 115 00:10:59,01 --> 00:10:59,94 their country I met 116 00:11:00,31 --> 00:11:04,35 a little girl named her dad and they talk about what happened one morning in 117 00:11:04,36 --> 00:11:10,13 Helmand province the before dawn the ground shook and the walls begin to fall 118 00:11:10,89 --> 00:11:17,14 and they lost some of their family members and they felt it was untenable to stay 119 00:11:17,15 --> 00:11:20,96 there and her dad said the Taliban came through later and said we want you to join 120 00:11:20,97 --> 00:11:23,92 didn't want to do that either but didn't feel it didn't feel they have 121 00:11:23,93 --> 00:11:29,81 a tenable home anymore so they what was left of the family came to that refugee 122 00:11:29,82 --> 00:11:32,10 camp in Kabul and they'd been there quite 123 00:11:32,11 --> 00:11:38,33 a few many months and that was really for Juma who was seven years old when I met 124 00:11:38,34 --> 00:11:42,71 her fourteen months ago that was the last meaningful contact she ever had with the 125 00:11:42,72 --> 00:11:47,57 US government was when our tax dollars drop bombs on her neighborhood. 126 00:11:49,65 --> 00:11:54,91 We had the money to bring the missiles and the bombs and the troops and to send 127 00:11:54,92 --> 00:12:01,23 more and more money to help that refugee camp not I left I left that camp I thought 128 00:12:01,24 --> 00:12:05,50 about oh that's really what it's about that's what happens when the president comes 129 00:12:05,51 --> 00:12:06,47 back with 130 00:12:06,48 --> 00:12:11,44 a priority package that says we hardly have any money for anything but making war 131 00:12:11,45 --> 00:12:18,26 which is what it's about it's about hearts and minds in terms of public 132 00:12:18,27 --> 00:12:23,67 relations but it's about priorities as we can best understand it through actions 133 00:12:23,68 --> 00:12:26,16 not the rhetoric not the P.R. 134 00:12:26,20 --> 00:12:30,15 And in fact there was another supplemental package again this year off budget and 135 00:12:30,16 --> 00:12:36,38 it was pushed through again the belief in the efficacy of violence is of course 136 00:12:36,39 --> 00:12:40,81 longstanding it's cultural it's political and what is the ultimate expression of 137 00:12:40,99 --> 00:12:46,46 faith that article of faith that techno idiology is nuclear weaponry. 138 00:12:47,84 --> 00:12:50,42 And the ultimate possession of the U.S. 139 00:12:50,43 --> 00:12:55,89 In terms of the expression of the belief that that's how you get things done when 140 00:12:55,90 --> 00:13:00,53 push comes to shove and you sort of use as much violence as you need to use and I 141 00:13:00,54 --> 00:13:02,11 think quite often of 142 00:13:02,46 --> 00:13:08,58 a friend of mine named Eric polar who I met in one nine hundred. Seventy nine he 143 00:13:08,59 --> 00:13:09,75 had been a U.S. 144 00:13:09,76 --> 00:13:14,72 Marine at the time of the end of World War two He was joyous at the dropping of the 145 00:13:14,73 --> 00:13:20,05 atomic bombs on Hiroshima Nagasaki and six weeks later he and company Marines he 146 00:13:20,06 --> 00:13:26,76 was with was sent to ground zero and they were ordered to clean up in that area and 147 00:13:27,10 --> 00:13:30,79 in one thousand nine hundred nine he was suffering from multiple myeloma bone 148 00:13:30,80 --> 00:13:34,15 marrow cancer and I was able to interview him and some others who went with him and 149 00:13:34,55 --> 00:13:40,87 the ratio of bio statistically was excessive you could prove it per se 150 00:13:41,70 --> 00:13:47,98 but it was very suggestive and as more and more info came in. It became more 151 00:13:48,02 --> 00:13:51,54 transparent that the Pentagon just didn't want people to think about it didn't want 152 00:13:51,58 --> 00:13:56,84 people to look at the data stood in the way because the myth always is these 153 00:13:56,85 --> 00:14:00,01 weapons are pointed in one direction and you can aim it like 154 00:14:00,02 --> 00:14:05,63 a gun and that's wait isn't hereon the last August sixth of his life stood in her 155 00:14:05,64 --> 00:14:10,71 Ocean and spoke to people there and his entire worldview had changed and that 156 00:14:10,72 --> 00:14:17,18 change in world view preceded just by months to his own death. When I think of 157 00:14:17,39 --> 00:14:24,11 a goal Juma. And the story she told me and. I 158 00:14:24,12 --> 00:14:27,62 looked at her and her dad in the look that her dad gave her I mean what do you say 159 00:14:27,63 --> 00:14:27,71 to 160 00:14:27,72 --> 00:14:32,31 a seven year old girl who lost one of her arms that she will live the rest of her life 161 00:14:32,32 --> 00:14:36,49 that way I thought about the lack of priorities of the U.S. 162 00:14:37,18 --> 00:14:42,07 We have that certain set of priorities to engage in warfare and then when I got 163 00:14:42,08 --> 00:14:48,79 home I began to think about. Children her age who are in my own community in Marin 164 00:14:48,80 --> 00:14:54,25 County and it were in general and people who we know because of our health care 165 00:14:54,26 --> 00:14:58,62 system or some people say what healthcare system they don't get primary care and 166 00:14:58,63 --> 00:15:02,77 easy access to primary care if they don't have sufficient you know decent insurance 167 00:15:02,78 --> 00:15:06,08 coverage or maybe if they have some low rung coverage or whatever you know about 168 00:15:06,09 --> 00:15:11,86 this much better than I do but I thought about it I thought there was 169 00:15:11,87 --> 00:15:18,44 a relationship between goal Juma and the children who are today in 170 00:15:18,45 --> 00:15:22,42 a virgin's the rooms where they don't have to be where their illness is more 171 00:15:22,43 --> 00:15:27,51 advanced because there wasn't the kind of primary care preventive care whatever to 172 00:15:27,58 --> 00:15:33,33 do had the onus off and distress often the suffering off at the pass and again it 173 00:15:33,35 --> 00:15:38,54 goes back to the budget questions which are routinely abstracted in our politics 174 00:15:38,55 --> 00:15:41,83 you know I'm there are many reasons I'm glad to be back in California one is that I 175 00:15:41,83 --> 00:15:42,67 was in D.C. 176 00:15:42,69 --> 00:15:47,47 For the last week and got back yesterday and sort of around Capitol Hill after the 177 00:15:47,49 --> 00:15:52,39 election and you know Capitol Hill that's the place where. There's 178 00:15:52,39 --> 00:15:58,45 a conflict between and perennial partisan conflict between the heartless and the 179 00:15:58,46 --> 00:16:05,10 spineless. And so I thought about 180 00:16:05,14 --> 00:16:10,28 what happens there are along Pennsylvania Avenue in terms of the appropriations. 181 00:16:11,89 --> 00:16:16,43 And then I went back to the National Priorities Project for their latest data the 182 00:16:16,44 --> 00:16:22,50 fiscal year two thousand and eleven the city of Sacramento hundred forty one 183 00:16:22,51 --> 00:16:27,59 million dollars in the next twelve months will go from taxpayers in the city of 184 00:16:27,60 --> 00:16:30,13 Sacramento to help pay for 185 00:16:30,14 --> 00:16:35,53 a war in Afghanistan. So then you ask yourself I mean you can slice and dice it in 186 00:16:35,54 --> 00:16:40,94 any way you want but think of maybe five. Or that be fourteen clinics inside the 187 00:16:40,95 --> 00:16:44,20 city of Sacramento give each of them ten million dollars tomorrow you think it 188 00:16:44,21 --> 00:16:48,77 would help it would save lives will course we know it would but our entire politics 189 00:16:48,78 --> 00:16:54,37 our entire media are largely set up to fog all that up there's no there's no 190 00:16:54,38 --> 00:17:00,00 correlation involved I was asked a question I did a T.V. Show out of D.C. 191 00:17:00,01 --> 00:17:02,65 And it was a long distance with some college students this is 192 00:17:02,66 --> 00:17:05,60 a few days ago and one of them said that we're talking about this deficit 193 00:17:05,61 --> 00:17:12,29 commission coming up you know the really well appointed commission you know who 194 00:17:12,30 --> 00:17:14,02 better to co-chair 195 00:17:14,45 --> 00:17:20,06 a deficit commission with recommendations on Social Security then Alan Simpson who 196 00:17:20,07 --> 00:17:25,33 hates social security and Erskine Bowles who talks about how the deficit is 197 00:17:25,34 --> 00:17:28,44 a cancer on America you know which is not exactly 198 00:17:28,45 --> 00:17:32,92 a prescription for Keynesian economics right so this is what we're dealing with the 199 00:17:32,93 --> 00:17:37,97 question came to me well but don't we need to stand up to the special interests 200 00:17:38,53 --> 00:17:43,45 don't we need to see to it that special interest don't get their way don't they all 201 00:17:43,46 --> 00:17:48,58 have to be called to account they all have to give ground and my response was 202 00:17:49,12 --> 00:17:53,37 Grandma is not a special interest grandpa is not 203 00:17:53,37 --> 00:17:56,07 a special interest McDonnell Douglas is 204 00:17:56,08 --> 00:18:02,32 a special interest. And these challenges that we're facing now we know all too well 205 00:18:02,33 --> 00:18:04,76 are not new but they are intensified as 206 00:18:04,77 --> 00:18:09,82 a new generation by any other name of investment for nuclear weapons goes forward 207 00:18:10,12 --> 00:18:13,60 as there are not only one hundred thousand uniformed U.S. 208 00:18:13,61 --> 00:18:18,63 Troops in Afghanistan but an even greater number who are not in uniform to the US 209 00:18:18,64 --> 00:18:22,91 military strength uniformed and otherwise is above two hundred thousand now in 210 00:18:22,92 --> 00:18:27,44 Afghanistan stopping up the money can you imagine you know you do the back of the 211 00:18:27,83 --> 00:18:31,64 unload calculations do what's a whole lot of zeros with 212 00:18:31,65 --> 00:18:35,65 a one on the left right one million dollars times one hundred thousand is one 213 00:18:35,66 --> 00:18:38,46 hundred billion dollars a year that's just to have the troops there 214 00:18:38,94 --> 00:18:44,65 a million dollars per soldier to have them there this is like profiles and you know 215 00:18:44,93 --> 00:18:49,56 new frontiers and squandering money for destructive purposes but that has been 216 00:18:49,60 --> 00:18:54,66 absolutely normalized so when Martin Luther King talked about the madness of 217 00:18:54,67 --> 00:18:58,26 militarism he was talking about one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and he's 218 00:18:58,27 --> 00:19:03,54 really talking about two thousand and ten he was talking about the Johnson 219 00:19:03,55 --> 00:19:08,07 administration but he's really talking about the Obama administration and the fact 220 00:19:08,08 --> 00:19:09,78 that we are encouraged to sort of put 221 00:19:09,79 --> 00:19:14,38 a happy face on the administration because we're talked to in complete sentences 222 00:19:14,80 --> 00:19:20,12 you know. Is really not very helpful because I got to tell you the refugees I saw 223 00:19:21,15 --> 00:19:26,77 in Kabul they didn't care whether there was an R A D after the name of the occupant 224 00:19:26,78 --> 00:19:30,74 of the Oval Office and I say that as somebody who was an Obama delegate to the 225 00:19:30,75 --> 00:19:34,67 Democratic National Convention if we live in 226 00:19:34,68 --> 00:19:39,29 a real time we don't look at the smoke billowing we look at the budget we look at 227 00:19:39,30 --> 00:19:45,99 the policy we look at the priorities and we're dealing with fantastically serious 228 00:19:46,24 --> 00:19:52,78 social crisis the cost of war is minimized by not 229 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:56,63 examining all the dimensions I mean we can tote it up and I think it's extremely 230 00:19:56,64 --> 00:20:02,71 important to look at the financial costs. If we will how it can be figured in 231 00:20:02,72 --> 00:20:05,93 dollars and cents and what's put in to 232 00:20:05,94 --> 00:20:11,73 a war that could and presumably in many cases would be spent at home and abroad 233 00:20:11,74 --> 00:20:18,21 perhaps to sustain life to help sustain life instead of for work purposes 234 00:20:19,59 --> 00:20:25,46 but what about the other costs of war what about the soldiers who come back with 235 00:20:25,47 --> 00:20:32,25 their their bodies shattered or even more frequently their spirits shattered and 236 00:20:32,65 --> 00:20:39,51 a society that's not really prepared to deal with it because after all we make war 237 00:20:39,80 --> 00:20:46,07 by pretending that we're doing something virtuous and we're not involved because 238 00:20:46,08 --> 00:20:51,17 that's delegated to others we you know the biggest predictor of the enlistment rate 239 00:20:51,18 --> 00:20:55,57 county by county in this country is the unemployment rate higher than employment 240 00:20:55,58 --> 00:20:59,32 rate I mean listen rate is not a legal conscription but it's 241 00:20:59,33 --> 00:21:05,21 a form of economic instruction we send somebody off send somebody off to do our 242 00:21:05,22 --> 00:21:11,46 work for us when we talk about the cost of war the corrosion of our own sense of 243 00:21:11,47 --> 00:21:18,34 conscience the corrosion of our capacity to validate our own empathy enough to 244 00:21:18,35 --> 00:21:24,42 actually speak up about it to do something about it the silencing the self 245 00:21:24,43 --> 00:21:30,76 silencing the capacity that we thank you the capacity that we have to tell us as 246 00:21:30,77 --> 00:21:35,94 well you know people in charge they really mean well they and we know that they're 247 00:21:35,95 --> 00:21:38,90 real intelligent and that counts for 248 00:21:38,91 --> 00:21:43,82 a lot. And they probably went to really good colleges not like Reagan went to 249 00:21:43,83 --> 00:21:47,85 teachers' college Yup You know these are the best and brightest you know this is 250 00:21:47,86 --> 00:21:53,18 a new generation of the best and brightest Daniel Ellsberg commented just 251 00:21:53,19 --> 00:21:59,10 a few months ago he said you know really really smart people can do really really 252 00:21:59,11 --> 00:22:02,31 dumb things. And I think he was talking about 253 00:22:02,32 --> 00:22:06,17 a lot of presidents past and present and that's just we know that has as 254 00:22:06,18 --> 00:22:10,60 a historical reality that's something that we live with and we live with the 255 00:22:10,61 --> 00:22:16,98 consequences of an underneath so much of this I believe is. The the shortage of 256 00:22:16,99 --> 00:22:23,44 democracy how sparse democracy is in our society whether you talk about the 257 00:22:23,45 --> 00:22:28,67 Citizens United decision or anything else. What Dr King called the madness of 258 00:22:28,68 --> 00:22:31,95 militarism thrives because we have such 259 00:22:31,96 --> 00:22:35,81 a shortage of democracy not in theory but in practice and of course that's 260 00:22:35,82 --> 00:22:42,52 a challenge for all of us to get beyond simply the ideas stage or the. Conceptual 261 00:22:42,53 --> 00:22:46,84 stage or even self-expression but to organize more effectively to organize 262 00:22:46,85 --> 00:22:49,24 civically to organize politically to organize in 263 00:22:49,25 --> 00:22:53,90 a way that is both educational and action oriented I've come to feel this is I mean 264 00:22:53,91 --> 00:22:58,02 I hoped to not write another book not because it wouldn't be fun or something but 265 00:22:58,03 --> 00:23:04,71 because really. We need to move into an organizing phase I believe more 266 00:23:04,72 --> 00:23:11,38 methodically. And we are acculturated by media by schools to be passive to 267 00:23:11,39 --> 00:23:12,99 find out what's going to happen we have 268 00:23:13,00 --> 00:23:18,13 a capacity though and we see it when wonderful things take place and historically 269 00:23:18,14 --> 00:23:20,21 and I think reviewing the history of P.S.R. 270 00:23:20,51 --> 00:23:24,58 Is you know just one of the prime examples where people took the bull by the horns 271 00:23:24,59 --> 00:23:28,17 and they said no we're going to change history not going to consume it like Wonder 272 00:23:28,18 --> 00:23:32,48 Bread off of the shelf and it means reconceptualizing I'm I want to put 273 00:23:32,49 --> 00:23:38,70 a sign over my desk this this is not happening to us we're making this happen and I 274 00:23:38,71 --> 00:23:39,01 think it's 275 00:23:39,02 --> 00:23:45,22 a good approach towards history obviously our capacities will fall short but we 276 00:23:45,23 --> 00:23:48,11 need to find out what's really possible and I believe that 277 00:23:48,12 --> 00:23:54,57 a lot more is possible then our usual horizons would would tend to 278 00:23:54,58 --> 00:23:58,98 indicate. I'm here of course to everybody up. 279 00:24:01,11 --> 00:24:08,09 And part of what I'm here to talk about is the costs of war and the other part 280 00:24:08,10 --> 00:24:13,55 of it is the potential of peace when I was in Kabul and I was taken to what I was 281 00:24:13,56 --> 00:24:19,88 told the poorest neighborhood in Kabul which is really saying something. And I was 282 00:24:19,89 --> 00:24:24,08 lucky enough to meet with about twenty five women who were working at sewing 283 00:24:24,09 --> 00:24:29,25 machines and doing the most micro of micro enterprises and at the end of the 284 00:24:29,48 --> 00:24:33,19 discussion naturally was translated I asked of 285 00:24:33,20 --> 00:24:38,21 a translator when I go back to the United States what should I tell the Americans 286 00:24:38,22 --> 00:24:43,63 there that you you need most of all and so the translator went around asked people 287 00:24:43,64 --> 00:24:48,36 and she said to me they all said peace they all said please. 288 00:24:50,61 --> 00:24:56,98 Thank you and I thought in our culture in the United States 289 00:24:57,70 --> 00:25:02,72 certainly in the mass media and political discourse such as it is were there sort 290 00:25:02,73 --> 00:25:08,16 of connotation quite often implicit or otherwise you know peace is sorta wispy it's 291 00:25:08,17 --> 00:25:13,49 sort of wimpy it's sort of pie in the sky but for those women I think they were 292 00:25:13,50 --> 00:25:16,59 saying that peace is a lifeline peace is 293 00:25:16,60 --> 00:25:22,98 a prerequisite that makes anything else possible and I think that's true for our 294 00:25:22,99 --> 00:25:27,95 own society as well as we see the destruction of our own infrastructure and you 295 00:25:27,96 --> 00:25:30,02 flip that over and you have 296 00:25:30,03 --> 00:25:35,33 a capacity to awaken we all have the capacity to awaken not only in personal but in 297 00:25:35,34 --> 00:25:42,18 political and social and civic terms to awaken the possibilities that we can turn 298 00:25:42,19 --> 00:25:47,02 this around that we can recognize that we can describe our current predicament and 299 00:25:47,03 --> 00:25:48,35 that moving beyond 300 00:25:48,94 --> 00:25:53,91 a logical constructs or theory we can set labels aside and we can talk to people 301 00:25:53,92 --> 00:25:58,71 about the future about environmental protection about the reality that. 302 00:26:00,75 --> 00:26:06,40 People who are and I think generally people are at some level transfixed with the 303 00:26:06,41 --> 00:26:09,66 future of their children and their grandchildren and their great great 304 00:26:09,67 --> 00:26:16,37 grandchildren that the two biggest threats are nuclear annihilation and global 305 00:26:16,38 --> 00:26:23,12 warming Those are the two big threats and we have that moral responsibility and 306 00:26:23,37 --> 00:26:27,70 I think the capacity to communicate in those terms with so many people who say you 307 00:26:27,71 --> 00:26:32,31 know for instance Oh I'm not I'm not into politics and we have 308 00:26:32,32 --> 00:26:35,58 a capacity to say well you may not be into politics and that's your prerogative of 309 00:26:35,59 --> 00:26:39,04 politics is into you beginning with when you turn on the tap and drink some water 310 00:26:39,71 --> 00:26:44,73 politics the consequences of action in action are in you literally and if you do 311 00:26:44,74 --> 00:26:51,34 care about the future generations and we have the the potential. Of peace 312 00:26:52,24 --> 00:26:58,65 and peace with that here and to justice and equity which really you know when we 313 00:26:58,66 --> 00:27:02,69 stop and and look at if they really are inseparable you know it's not just 314 00:27:02,99 --> 00:27:09,83 a little ration No justice no peace but that's reality it's reality in Afghanistan 315 00:27:09,85 --> 00:27:14,01 it's in realities so many countries including our own you know the economic 316 00:27:14,47 --> 00:27:21,33 injustices are so tied in with what is fueling these conflicts over and over 317 00:27:21,85 --> 00:27:23,26 and the ways in which 318 00:27:23,57 --> 00:27:28,84 a vision of something else you know is is tremendously powerful and I think we have 319 00:27:28,85 --> 00:27:34,21 that capacity we have that real possibility is to return the enthusiasm for 320 00:27:34,22 --> 00:27:40,03 violence on its head by talking about what the real consequences are the violence 321 00:27:40,04 --> 00:27:46,78 of hunger of environmental racism. Of War of what it what war does the shattering 322 00:27:46,79 --> 00:27:52,91 effects of war so I think we're going to have time for some questions and so forth 323 00:27:52,92 --> 00:27:58,06 and I don't want to go on much longer but you know I do want to say that it's 324 00:27:58,53 --> 00:28:04,83 relatively easy for writers such as myself to solve everything 325 00:28:05,44 --> 00:28:11,45 on paper you say solve it on paper and I saw it on screen you know and that is 326 00:28:12,39 --> 00:28:18,48 it's enticing and it has its value but King talked about the paralysis of analysis 327 00:28:18,49 --> 00:28:23,75 that was his phrase Dr King said you know there's this paralysis of analysis and if 328 00:28:23,76 --> 00:28:29,77 we stay in that state realm where we think we have it all figured out and we don't 329 00:28:29,78 --> 00:28:35,03 venture into taking those leaps of action then yes we may feel more. 330 00:28:36,23 --> 00:28:42,40 Settled as to what needs to be done but we won't really we won't really be doing it 331 00:28:43,18 --> 00:28:49,84 I love what Jim Hightower says he describes the hardware store. In his 332 00:28:49,85 --> 00:28:52,41 neighborhood in Austin as old fashioned one where you know you need 333 00:28:52,42 --> 00:28:56,99 a particular bolt you go in with the the screw and they'll fit it and all that and 334 00:28:57,07 --> 00:29:03,36 the sign up front says we help you do it yourself and in many ways we need to be 335 00:29:03,37 --> 00:29:07,54 that for each other we need to help each other do it ourselves we are going to be 336 00:29:07,55 --> 00:29:13,27 taught that by schools might be topped up by news media and we do believe I think 337 00:29:14,14 --> 00:29:14,41 and it's 338 00:29:14,42 --> 00:29:17,75 a challenge to fill out that when the people leave the leaders will follow you know 339 00:29:17,76 --> 00:29:21,35 we believe that it's certainly not going to come from those who are told or leaders 340 00:29:21,36 --> 00:29:26,05 so indeed we're going to have to do it ourselves so I think I'm in 341 00:29:26,06 --> 00:29:27,22 a pause and ask for 342 00:29:27,23 --> 00:29:35,43 a question. They 343 00:29:35,44 --> 00:29:40,70 still keep filling out questions and now they'll be people picking them up. When 344 00:29:40,71 --> 00:29:44,72 Obama was campaigning he indicated he wanted to end the wars in Iraq and 345 00:29:44,73 --> 00:29:49,03 Afghanistan his actions in office that is the budget suggests this is no longer 346 00:29:49,04 --> 00:29:55,00 true what what pressures cause the change I would say that when Obama was 347 00:29:55,01 --> 00:29:59,22 campaigning for president no way he said he would end the war in Iraq and he said 348 00:29:59,23 --> 00:30:03,44 that he would give remedial heightened attention to the war in Afghanistan I think 349 00:30:03,69 --> 00:30:04,23 he said it 350 00:30:04,24 --> 00:30:09,26 a little bit differently but the cliche was we took our eye off the ball right you 351 00:30:09,51 --> 00:30:13,29 see we should get rid of these sports metaphors but that was what was said you know 352 00:30:13,57 --> 00:30:16,97 and so. I don't think there's been that much of 353 00:30:16,98 --> 00:30:21,30 a shift from his actual rhetoric you know people people have said I have this been 354 00:30:21,31 --> 00:30:25,86 said to me many times well don't blame Obama about escalating in Afghanistan he 355 00:30:25,87 --> 00:30:29,04 said he would do it during the campaign even if you didn't use the word escalation 356 00:30:29,05 --> 00:30:29,96 which is true but there's 357 00:30:29,97 --> 00:30:33,96 a couple of major problems with that first of all Obama broke 358 00:30:34,17 --> 00:30:40,16 a lot of campaign promises in the last twenty two months or so but that was 359 00:30:40,17 --> 00:30:44,90 a bad one that he fulfilled which was to escalate the war in Afghanistan also he 360 00:30:44,92 --> 00:30:46,82 didn't tell us he was going to triple the U.S. 361 00:30:46,99 --> 00:30:50,50 Uniform military force there and I think if he had at the time there would have 362 00:30:50,50 --> 00:30:51,53 been more pushback in 363 00:30:51,54 --> 00:30:58,14 a way what I just the other part of question. You know I don't know what his 364 00:30:58,14 --> 00:31:02,54 internal condition is so I can't say why he did it none of us and say why did it 365 00:31:02,93 --> 00:31:07,38 but you know that old cliche military industrial complex he certainly is flying in 366 00:31:07,39 --> 00:31:13,45 formation today peace activists talk to each other but do not get their message out 367 00:31:13,46 --> 00:31:19,83 to the general public we are polite domesticated and invisible to the public what 368 00:31:19,84 --> 00:31:25,93 do you think could and should be done to have an impact on public awareness. Well I 369 00:31:25,94 --> 00:31:29,95 think there are many fronts you know that whether it's social media and elsewhere 370 00:31:29,96 --> 00:31:34,58 on the Internet whether it's letters to the editor op eds T.V. 371 00:31:34,59 --> 00:31:39,99 Radio we should assume that our voices should and must be part of the mix and that 372 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:43,25 it's legitimate and whether it's at the B or N.P.R. 373 00:31:43,41 --> 00:31:47,48 Local daily or weekly to keep pushing and there's often 374 00:31:47,49 --> 00:31:52,60 a synergy there between the media attention and the organizing or let me just flip 375 00:31:52,61 --> 00:31:53,02 it over for 376 00:31:53,03 --> 00:31:57,80 a moment the negative synergy as when people on Capitol Hill in the White House 377 00:31:57,81 --> 00:31:57,92 have 378 00:31:57,93 --> 00:32:03,61 a very narrow range of discourse then those in the media say well we're just we're 379 00:32:03,62 --> 00:32:08,05 just reporting on the discourse and then when. People those positions see what's in 380 00:32:08,06 --> 00:32:10,77 the media they say well why should I go beyond the media discourse of there's 381 00:32:10,78 --> 00:32:13,19 a negative synergy we need to turn it around 382 00:32:13,20 --> 00:32:17,93 a different direction and that means articulating in all ways we can both by 383 00:32:17,94 --> 00:32:21,22 criticizing mainstream media and putting our message out through alternative 384 00:32:21,23 --> 00:32:23,48 sources that we have a different message we have 385 00:32:23,49 --> 00:32:27,03 a different set of commitments and I would add that has to be in tandem with 386 00:32:27,04 --> 00:32:32,42 political organizing inside and outside the electoral arena. Ninety percent 387 00:32:32,43 --> 00:32:37,97 military ten percent civilian What is typical response of progressive progressives 388 00:32:37,98 --> 00:32:42,66 to these numbers do progressives care about this racial you know I think I was 389 00:32:43,03 --> 00:32:49,06 actually too. Favorable towards the White House I forgot to say that of the ten 390 00:32:49,07 --> 00:32:55,28 percent really between ten and twenty percent actually get to the intended targets 391 00:32:55,48 --> 00:32:59,17 a lot of it goes to the contractors also known as the Northern Virginia beltway 392 00:32:59,18 --> 00:33:04,29 bandits and so forth so you might say that out of that ten percent there is you 393 00:33:04,30 --> 00:33:09,78 know at best perhaps two cent two cents so it's two cents of the dollar going to 394 00:33:09,97 --> 00:33:14,33 give aid and that's the question was What can we do why don't people know about it 395 00:33:14,34 --> 00:33:20,13 was that it or that the rest of your question there. To progressive scare about 396 00:33:20,14 --> 00:33:24,46 this ratio I think progressives care about the extent that that's in the media and 397 00:33:24,47 --> 00:33:27,62 in our awareness you know the saying goes the media can't tell you what to think 398 00:33:27,63 --> 00:33:32,50 but can tell you what to think about. And I mean if you were to Google I have not 399 00:33:32,51 --> 00:33:37,37 done this but if you were to put quotation marks around nuclear proliferation and 400 00:33:37,38 --> 00:33:41,85 then put quotation marks around say Britney Spears on Google I hate to think of the 401 00:33:41,86 --> 00:33:47,36 results you know so this needs to be talked about because in the absence of these 402 00:33:47,40 --> 00:33:53,39 distorted budgetary and therefore ethical priorities or unethical priorities in the 403 00:33:53,40 --> 00:33:57,34 absence of that being talked about it just becomes part of the wallpaper people may 404 00:33:57,35 --> 00:34:02,75 or may not know about it but it just says like well it's another day. How do we 405 00:34:02,76 --> 00:34:07,24 balance the criticism of President Obama's war policies and budget with the rising 406 00:34:07,25 --> 00:34:11,84 political power of the tea powers Tea Party and the right wing How can we support 407 00:34:11,85 --> 00:34:15,14 and lobby the president to wage peace it was 408 00:34:15,15 --> 00:34:19,13 a similar problem that Dr King faced and many others in one thousand nine hundred 409 00:34:19,14 --> 00:34:20,80 sixty seven can imagine here's 410 00:34:20,81 --> 00:34:25,76 a Democrat in the White House who was responsible courageously for pushing through 411 00:34:26,60 --> 00:34:32,61 Medicare the Civil Rights Act the Voting Rights Act historic courageous changes 412 00:34:32,62 --> 00:34:38,03 that President Johnson made while he continued to escalate the war in Vietnam and 413 00:34:38,04 --> 00:34:43,32 that's why King held back because of that very contradiction and as 414 00:34:43,33 --> 00:34:49,66 a historical footnote or any note whatever you prefer. President Johnson 415 00:34:50,52 --> 00:34:57,23 passed more progressive social legislation than President Obama ever tried to do so 416 00:34:57,27 --> 00:35:03,33 why on the one hand we laud Dr King for finally awaken his conscience to give voice 417 00:35:03,34 --> 00:35:05,88 against the war in Vietnam and we're tempted to give 418 00:35:05,89 --> 00:35:11,33 a pass to President Obama it's just sort of. Not 419 00:35:11,34 --> 00:35:17,61 a good idea to hold back I believe. I'm sorry one of part of this. 420 00:35:18,77 --> 00:35:24,18 I believe that in certain terms of the politics of the country the right wing is 421 00:35:24,19 --> 00:35:30,90 being empowered by. The the the blue dog like caution because 422 00:35:30,91 --> 00:35:36,27 instead of the president and the administration taking a sort of F.D.R. 423 00:35:36,31 --> 00:35:40,21 Role of saying you know I'm opposed to the economic royalists as F.D.R. 424 00:35:40,22 --> 00:35:44,84 Said I'm I welcome their hatred I have these values I'm going to fight for these 425 00:35:44,85 --> 00:35:48,19 values I'm going to fight against foreclosures I'm going to fight against 426 00:35:48,20 --> 00:35:51,75 unemployment does anybody think that if the president actually fought against 427 00:35:51,76 --> 00:35:56,31 foreclosures and fought against high unemployment that the numbers would have been 428 00:35:56,32 --> 00:36:02,76 so bad last Tuesday I don't think. What anger issue around War and Peace have you 429 00:36:02,77 --> 00:36:07,81 seen successively engaging activists especially community activists since the 430 00:36:07,82 --> 00:36:13,38 economy has overshadowed concern about the two wars Yeah it's it's been very tough 431 00:36:13,39 --> 00:36:13,94 I mean there's sort of 432 00:36:13,95 --> 00:36:17,67 a negative cyclical effect here with the mass media saying that every all that 433 00:36:17,68 --> 00:36:21,77 matters is the economy and occasionally saying that Afghanistan doesn't matter I 434 00:36:21,78 --> 00:36:22,33 don't think we have 435 00:36:22,34 --> 00:36:24,80 a lot to write home about the last few months I think that we have 436 00:36:24,81 --> 00:36:29,35 a lot of work to do but it's going to be thrust upon us because in December of this 437 00:36:29,36 --> 00:36:33,38 year the president is going to review policy towards Afghanistan some fateful 438 00:36:33,39 --> 00:36:37,98 decisions will be made in the in the next few months I I don't think I think we've 439 00:36:37,99 --> 00:36:38,67 been at close to 440 00:36:38,68 --> 00:36:43,26 a low water mark in terms of galvanization but it is brewing I when you think about 441 00:36:43,27 --> 00:36:48,25 how much money is being spent on these wars and people continuing to come home so 442 00:36:48,26 --> 00:36:54,68 this is I think on our plate coming up very soon they keep writing questions if you 443 00:36:54,69 --> 00:37:00,35 have them where do you see the next opportunity to push back on funding for the 444 00:37:00,36 --> 00:37:04,97 wars the political window is closed now how can we put this problem of the wars 445 00:37:04,98 --> 00:37:06,06 back on the agenda as 446 00:37:06,07 --> 00:37:10,93 a problem that needs to be solved. I think that there there are there are some 447 00:37:10,94 --> 00:37:16,10 silver linings and you know I've I've been sort of light on the on the optimism 448 00:37:16,11 --> 00:37:19,66 part here I'm certainly not I'm not up to Mystic and I'm not fatalistic I think I 449 00:37:19,67 --> 00:37:23,95 think it depends on what we do one sort of silver lining is if you look at the 450 00:37:23,96 --> 00:37:29,90 congressional membership that that is Democrats in the house when the new Congress 451 00:37:29,91 --> 00:37:32,02 is sworn in you're going to have 452 00:37:32,03 --> 00:37:37,88 a much more progressive set of Democrats in the house the so-called Blue Dog 453 00:37:37,89 --> 00:37:42,92 Coalition lost half of their members last Tuesday they had fifty members they lost 454 00:37:42,93 --> 00:37:49,10 half of them the Progressive Caucus lost four out of eighty. And so you have this 455 00:37:49,18 --> 00:37:52,57 paradox of the. Congress as 456 00:37:52,58 --> 00:37:56,59 a whole moving to the right and the Democrats in the house moving in 457 00:37:56,60 --> 00:38:02,51 a left and certainly more anti-war direction we got some good votes I mean near not 458 00:38:02,52 --> 00:38:07,47 nearly sufficient but against the last supplemental for the War Powers Resolution 459 00:38:07,48 --> 00:38:10,13 invocation that Dennis Kucinich led we have 460 00:38:10,14 --> 00:38:13,33 a long way to go but I think we're going to need to go back to that because these 461 00:38:13,34 --> 00:38:17,34 wars are being paid for and paid for and paid for and that's an opportunity for us 462 00:38:17,64 --> 00:38:21,73 as these appropriations come forward whether annual budget or supplementals to say 463 00:38:21,95 --> 00:38:25,90 look we have better ways to spend this money and we have alternatives do want to 464 00:38:25,91 --> 00:38:31,76 say and this goes to something I found at this at an Afghan rebuilding summit I was 465 00:38:31,77 --> 00:38:34,44 at this afternoon. At U.C. 466 00:38:34,45 --> 00:38:38,64 Berkeley where there are mostly was the Afghan Diaspora there were one hundred or 467 00:38:38,65 --> 00:38:44,68 so folks who are working desperately to try to find humanitarian solutions in 468 00:38:44,69 --> 00:38:48,89 Afghanistan and it resonates with me as it did when I was in Afghanistan that we 469 00:38:48,90 --> 00:38:55,83 should not abandon Afghanistan we need to redefine what that means our best gift to 470 00:38:55,84 --> 00:38:59,96 them is not more troops and more bombs we have humanitarian aid that can be given 471 00:39:00,11 --> 00:39:03,45 there are programs like the National Solidarity Program that are working through 472 00:39:03,46 --> 00:39:05,03 the World Bank and so forth to 473 00:39:05,04 --> 00:39:08,39 a significant degree and by the way when we're told hate the money will just get 474 00:39:08,40 --> 00:39:13,96 ripped off so don't give that aid the best response I can think of is hey only ten 475 00:39:13,97 --> 00:39:19,71 to twenty percent of our aid money doesn't it as such is going to people in 476 00:39:19,72 --> 00:39:24,73 Afghanistan we don't they can't do any worse than we do really that is 477 00:39:24,74 --> 00:39:31,62 statistically the case who benefits from war and how do we change 478 00:39:31,63 --> 00:39:33,75 economic contingencies to decrease U.S. 479 00:39:33,76 --> 00:39:39,66 Debt combined with war profiteering for example Halliburton You know I think it's 480 00:39:39,67 --> 00:39:44,46 the inverse or the flip side of that just. Cross of iron speech Eisenhower gave 481 00:39:44,47 --> 00:39:46,65 about every bullet in every tank every bomb is 482 00:39:46,66 --> 00:39:49,87 a theft from the children the worlds we know who loses who gains is the 483 00:39:49,88 --> 00:39:53,63 profiteering the McDonnell Douglas and all the rest of it and really if you watch 484 00:39:53,64 --> 00:39:59,76 the Sunday chat shows or you watch it this week you know this week Washington this 485 00:39:59,77 --> 00:40:04,78 week and so forth on P.B.S. a Little lone A.B.C. C.B.S. N.B.C. 486 00:40:05,12 --> 00:40:10,83 The targeted shows that are for the intelligentsia on Sunday about our real options 487 00:40:11,12 --> 00:40:15,55 you'll see these major military contractors advertising it's not that the ewers are 488 00:40:15,56 --> 00:40:18,20 going to pull out a checkbook you know and buy themselves 489 00:40:18,21 --> 00:40:19,63 a jet fighter something but it's 490 00:40:19,96 --> 00:40:25,46 a reflection of the way in which the political economy has its embed so to speak is 491 00:40:25,47 --> 00:40:29,16 these profiteering profiteers from war there's more than two billion with a B. 492 00:40:29,17 --> 00:40:31,02 Dollars every day going from the U.S. 493 00:40:31,03 --> 00:40:33,40 Treasury to military spending and there's such 494 00:40:33,41 --> 00:40:39,51 a huge amount of war money sloshing around that you know that's sort of 495 00:40:39,52 --> 00:40:43,08 a a trickle up to the oligarch either if they're making 496 00:40:43,09 --> 00:40:49,85 a killing literally and figuratively Can you comment on the fact that N.P.R. 497 00:40:49,86 --> 00:40:55,76 Does not fulfill its role as an eye opener of us and I'm sure if that's the right. 498 00:40:57,09 --> 00:40:59,15 Spelling here I opener of the U.S. 499 00:40:59,16 --> 00:41:04,48 Intelligence why can I not be more like Amy Goodman is Democracy Now revealing the 500 00:41:04,49 --> 00:41:07,37 truth. Yeah that's 501 00:41:07,38 --> 00:41:13,55 a good question I would say that. For instance in the economic realm you've got 502 00:41:13,55 --> 00:41:17,90 a program which is not N.P.R. But it's Public Radio International is on N.P.R. 503 00:41:17,91 --> 00:41:21,58 Stations marketplace right. I do remember hearing 504 00:41:21,59 --> 00:41:26,71 a show called Labor place doesn't exist you know not every day not every week and 505 00:41:26,72 --> 00:41:28,62 that's sort of a that's a literal problem it's also 506 00:41:28,63 --> 00:41:33,74 a metaphor that goes to the questions of war and if we find that the power 507 00:41:33,75 --> 00:41:39,32 structure or the the inside the Beltway so to speak Washington based press corps 508 00:41:39,68 --> 00:41:43,86 has embraced and been embraced by over the years ALL THINGS CONSIDERED MORNING 509 00:41:43,87 --> 00:41:47,32 EDITION The other alternative shows that are aired alternative times where there's 510 00:41:47,33 --> 00:41:50,90 much less listeners you know you can listen to This American Life for something 511 00:41:51,24 --> 00:41:55,46 much for your listeners the key the propaganda key and this is true of The News 512 00:41:55,47 --> 00:41:58,98 Hour formerly known as The News Hour With Jim Lehrer ALL THINGS CONSIDERED MORNING 513 00:41:58,99 --> 00:42:04,70 EDITION drive time this is the heavy hitter propaganda aspects and in terms of 514 00:42:04,71 --> 00:42:10,39 going into the war in Iraq the invasion of Mark two thousand and three wasn't Fox 515 00:42:10,40 --> 00:42:14,52 News that was most responsible for that in terms of the differential to tip over so 516 00:42:14,53 --> 00:42:19,49 to speak the swing voters swing sentiment in this case since it was an election it 517 00:42:19,50 --> 00:42:23,86 was the New York Times Judith Miller Michael Gordon all arrested and it was ALL 518 00:42:23,87 --> 00:42:27,90 THINGS CONSIDERED and MORNING EDITION they did their stops not graffiti for the war 519 00:42:27,91 --> 00:42:32,20 for state and that's what they do that their worst reporting on ALL THINGS 520 00:42:32,21 --> 00:42:36,16 CONSIDERED and MORNING EDITION is about war and US foreign policy absolutely 521 00:42:36,17 --> 00:42:40,54 internalized the values and world view of the national security state the window on 522 00:42:40,55 --> 00:42:44,96 the world is almost an area only tinted red white and blue That's not journalism 523 00:42:44,97 --> 00:42:49,22 it's not for the powerful and why there's a lot of real rewards a lot of 524 00:42:49,54 --> 00:42:53,51 a lot of money flowing that way and you don't step on any big toes we'll come back 525 00:42:53,52 --> 00:42:54,01 and bite yes. 526 00:43:01,56 --> 00:43:06,80 We can get peace without justice but but how do you propose to thwart the Taliban 527 00:43:07,47 --> 00:43:14,11 that is get justice and human rights into places like China. The Taliban into the 528 00:43:14,22 --> 00:43:19,44 like OK I think I get the gist of the question Well I'm not I'm not 529 00:43:19,45 --> 00:43:21,28 a pacifist I do believe that 530 00:43:21,32 --> 00:43:25,44 a very very high threshold needs to be reached for justification without 531 00:43:25,99 --> 00:43:32,57 alternatives being available and the idea that after thirty years of war what 532 00:43:32,58 --> 00:43:38,73 Afghanistan needs is more violence more violence to be ratcheted up doesn't make 533 00:43:38,74 --> 00:43:42,99 sense to me let me go to one specific point which is about women's rights and 534 00:43:43,00 --> 00:43:46,87 violence against women when I was in Kabul I met with people from UNIFEM and 535 00:43:46,88 --> 00:43:49,92 elsewhere in the UN apparatus and they cited 536 00:43:49,93 --> 00:43:54,68 a study where. Women eighty percent of women according to 537 00:43:54,69 --> 00:43:59,85 a survey are subjected to serious domestic violence in Afghanistan as bad as it is 538 00:43:59,86 --> 00:44:05,00 your way worse there the notion that if we can create more violence in the society 539 00:44:05,01 --> 00:44:08,94 as a whole that will somehow help those women to have 540 00:44:08,95 --> 00:44:13,46 a lower proportion of violence in their household would go against everything we 541 00:44:13,47 --> 00:44:17,50 know about how domestic violence happens. And 542 00:44:17,54 --> 00:44:23,04 a lot of the most horrendous instances of violence against women including you know 543 00:44:23,05 --> 00:44:28,62 reaching news magazine covers and so forth are under you know Karzai controlled 544 00:44:28,63 --> 00:44:31,87 extensively controlled territory it's so it's a it's 545 00:44:31,88 --> 00:44:38,29 a cultural problem it's huge or doesn't solve it. A couple more questions since 546 00:44:38,30 --> 00:44:43,16 most head injuries are from roadside bombs in Afghanistan and one journalist said 547 00:44:43,17 --> 00:44:47,85 eighty percent of those trucks are carrying fuel for air conditioning why not spray 548 00:44:47,86 --> 00:44:51,63 the tents with insulating foam Have they done this I'm go to 549 00:44:51,64 --> 00:44:55,82 a more generalized point here I was shocked at the Institute for Public actors I 550 00:44:55,83 --> 00:44:59,80 was editing a news release and. We had a figure come in of 551 00:44:59,81 --> 00:45:04,04 a draft news release from an expert it said traumatic brain injury three hundred 552 00:45:04,23 --> 00:45:06,25 twenty thousand of U.S. 553 00:45:06,26 --> 00:45:08,56 Troops have been in Iraq and gas as of this must be 554 00:45:08,57 --> 00:45:14,57 a typo you know the must be an extra digit digit now estimated above three hundred 555 00:45:14,58 --> 00:45:19,69 thousand traumatic brain injury for troops as part of what I was sort of alluding 556 00:45:19,73 --> 00:45:26,39 towards. A while ago this evening people are coming home and they're coming home 557 00:45:26,73 --> 00:45:31,18 and partly because there's such eagerness to sweep under the rug what war really is 558 00:45:31,19 --> 00:45:36,70 about there's there's not the resources or even more profoundly the political or 559 00:45:36,71 --> 00:45:42,98 social desire to really be responsive to what's happening and I think that as as as 560 00:45:42,99 --> 00:45:47,08 medical people say the best remedy is prophylactic don't cause the traumatic brain 561 00:45:47,09 --> 00:45:51,03 injury in the first place and that goes of course for Americans and Afghans as well 562 00:45:51,87 --> 00:45:53,21 OK final question Is there 563 00:45:53,22 --> 00:45:58,29 a way to tap the energy of the Tea Party like groups to work against the wars and 564 00:45:58,30 --> 00:46:05,00 to stir the American people toward peace or why are we so passive I would say that 565 00:46:05,07 --> 00:46:11,43 when avenues for progressive populism are discouraged or tamp down as this White 566 00:46:11,44 --> 00:46:17,17 House has worked very hard to do trying to keep progressives in line don't raise 567 00:46:17,45 --> 00:46:19,35 key issues to challenge from 568 00:46:19,36 --> 00:46:23,51 a progressive standpoint that empowers the right wing and the tea baggers the Tea 569 00:46:23,52 --> 00:46:29,89 Party because the only avenue left open. Is the right wing Zina phobic often 570 00:46:29,90 --> 00:46:35,53 racist blame the victim sort of scapegoating politics you know against immigrants 571 00:46:35,54 --> 00:46:36,46 and all the rest and this is 572 00:46:36,47 --> 00:46:41,94 a classic fork in the road you know of of populism the Zina phobic right wing 573 00:46:41,95 --> 00:46:46,24 scapegoating populism or the progressive populism of solidarity that doesn't blame 574 00:46:46,25 --> 00:46:52,18 victims of the social order for the injustice in the society but blames those who 575 00:46:52,19 --> 00:46:57,71 have way too much power and disproportionately so and I'm sorry was the rest of 576 00:46:57,72 --> 00:47:02,91 that question was just the tail end of that. Where we so passive by ways of that 577 00:47:03,41 --> 00:47:05,06 well wow if I had 578 00:47:05,07 --> 00:47:09,39 a really complete answer to that I would be way smarter than I am but I think it's 579 00:47:09,40 --> 00:47:14,80 a culture ation largely work culture that way from really early on and the 580 00:47:14,81 --> 00:47:16,02 deference to 581 00:47:16,03 --> 00:47:22,92 a thorough transcends. So many different political and social systems and 582 00:47:22,96 --> 00:47:27,36 eras there's the right Medvedev the biographer of Nikita Khrushchev he has this 583 00:47:27,73 --> 00:47:32,58 great story which is which is transcendent of any particular era or system or 584 00:47:32,59 --> 00:47:37,63 ideology where it's right after nine hundred fifty six and Chris just talking to 585 00:47:37,64 --> 00:47:42,71 the Politburo and and. Suddenly Christopher hears 586 00:47:42,72 --> 00:47:47,24 a voice from somewhere around the table it says but but Comrade Khrushchev Why 587 00:47:47,25 --> 00:47:52,92 didn't you speak up against the crimes of Stalin and Christopher sharply looks 588 00:47:52,93 --> 00:47:58,83 around says who said that and there's total silence and he says that's why. 589 00:48:01,21 --> 00:48:02,76 Thank you Norman Solomon. 590 00:49:19,08 --> 00:49:22,64 There but there are moments but. 591 00:49:26,47 --> 00:49:30,97 In the spirit of openness and dialogue we want to present 592 00:49:30,98 --> 00:49:36,51 a fair and balanced Fox We have invited a spokesperson for 593 00:49:36,52 --> 00:49:42,39 a. Person spokesman spokes man just 594 00:49:42,40 --> 00:49:49,34 a man. For the anti health care proton Archer Yes 595 00:49:49,52 --> 00:49:56,03 make him talk. Pro financial collapse point of view. So please give an 596 00:49:56,04 --> 00:49:59,56 appropriate welcome to was no bailout the Bard is 597 00:49:59,57 --> 00:50:05,03 a banker. How there are one learn. 598 00:50:07,38 --> 00:50:10,82 Doing good let's see what we can do about that. 599 00:50:14,99 --> 00:50:18,56 It's great to be here I'm doing a little consulting work 600 00:50:18,68 --> 00:50:24,26 a little legal consultant well almost legal consultant. Work with 601 00:50:24,27 --> 00:50:31,24 a firm of summer Greenspan Geitner and bailout. But 602 00:50:31,25 --> 00:50:34,40 I don't want to talk about us I won't talk about you Americans any American here 603 00:50:34,41 --> 00:50:41,35 tonight. Oh it's different earlier crowds had no. Americans 604 00:50:41,36 --> 00:50:45,66 as you know since you are claiming to be several How many of you are there just 605 00:50:45,67 --> 00:50:52,53 count off. Well anyway Americans are if not depressed at 606 00:50:52,54 --> 00:50:58,74 least greatly recessed. And what does that mean that means that you 607 00:50:59,59 --> 00:51:05,58 cannot shop is basically what I mean. And as you know Americans love to get out and 608 00:51:05,59 --> 00:51:06,35 hunt and gather in 609 00:51:06,36 --> 00:51:10,60 a wide open spaces of the great American mall. Which incidentally is 610 00:51:10,61 --> 00:51:17,16 a good place to hang out if you live anywhere. Brings us to the subject of 611 00:51:17,25 --> 00:51:23,01 foreclosure. Something people seem to enjoy talking about lately you know there's 612 00:51:23,02 --> 00:51:29,25 a certain number of people have gone into this. Status and Michigan has given us an 613 00:51:29,26 --> 00:51:34,35 interesting statistic sixty percent of the for both families are actually black 614 00:51:34,36 --> 00:51:38,64 families which have gone into the red so at least that transcended the color line. 615 00:51:40,43 --> 00:51:44,77 Well you can see it doesn't affect everybody equally and nobody more unequally than 616 00:51:44,78 --> 00:51:48,34 those who get bailed out and there are people out there saying that if you're too 617 00:51:48,35 --> 00:51:53,67 big to fail you're the right size to nationalize these are the same people that are 618 00:51:53,68 --> 00:51:57,48 saying you should bail out the needy not concrete you know who these people are the 619 00:51:57,49 --> 00:52:02,33 same thing. Yes and if you happen to have any of their addresses e-mails and phone 620 00:52:02,34 --> 00:52:08,55 numbers and Twitter monikers I am collecting I'm interested in this kind of 621 00:52:08,56 --> 00:52:10,89 information I'm going to an information kind of a guy I have 622 00:52:10,90 --> 00:52:17,65 a suspicion these people are hiding in their houses which. Can be 623 00:52:17,66 --> 00:52:23,82 dealt with anyway I want to focus what I know to be your unease about the NOMIC 624 00:52:23,83 --> 00:52:25,60 situation with 625 00:52:25,61 --> 00:52:30,61 a little music this evening I would like to actually present you with some banks to 626 00:52:30,62 --> 00:52:37,26 rap but. It turns out that. 627 00:52:38,46 --> 00:52:44,66 If you can afford it. So we're going to revert to the old tunes the traditional 628 00:52:44,98 --> 00:52:50,85 tunes with the traditional seems the themes of. Blame basically. 629 00:52:52,97 --> 00:52:54,65 Been five years since you had 630 00:52:54,66 --> 00:53:03,65 a really. Way things are going you. Know 631 00:53:03,66 --> 00:53:09,90 what you. Need somebody to. Broke. 632 00:53:16,42 --> 00:53:23,30 Your neighborhood library. To. Your kids go 633 00:53:23,31 --> 00:53:30,31 to is. Serving liberals corporate tax 634 00:53:30,32 --> 00:53:36,66 break. That's propaganda I know. Everybody for 635 00:53:37,19 --> 00:53:40,64 one. Dollar. 636 00:53:45,27 --> 00:53:51,51 To murder. Them No class. But some are. 637 00:53:57,89 --> 00:54:04,61 Pissed off about. Who's to blame for inflation and unemployment problem. 638 00:54:09,90 --> 00:54:13,90 Is. That you. 639 00:54:17,45 --> 00:54:20,21 Are going to welfare. It's all their fault. 640 00:54:26,72 --> 00:54:30,58 They have no class. That's the. 641 00:54:40,53 --> 00:54:47,20 Question of bonuses. Actually it's only thirty nine million dollars and. Seventy 642 00:54:47,21 --> 00:54:51,32 four billion dollars. I mean money. 643 00:54:57,14 --> 00:55:03,91 But you're going to hoard it. Everything works out in the 644 00:55:03,92 --> 00:55:09,51 end. Even at General Motors you know I wasn't so concerned when I first heard G.M. 645 00:55:09,52 --> 00:55:15,44 Was having difficulties I mean is what is it bunch of jobs but then it turned out 646 00:55:15,45 --> 00:55:21,86 they were going to cease. Construction of the Hummer. Nano. 647 00:55:23,66 --> 00:55:26,95 You tax a Hummer you attack the right of every American to drive 648 00:55:26,96 --> 00:55:33,11 a tank. Take away my Hummer you may reduce me to eventually to 649 00:55:33,63 --> 00:55:33,97 driving 650 00:55:33,98 --> 00:55:40,84 a car. No no very important that they look 651 00:55:40,85 --> 00:55:46,80 into alternative energies I don't know why they didn't before. You know the writing 652 00:55:46,81 --> 00:55:50,05 was on the wall when they had to sell their corporate jets G.M. 653 00:55:50,06 --> 00:55:50,95 Sold I think they sold 654 00:55:50,96 --> 00:55:57,21 a Ford. And they but for folders to Chevy anyway Chrysler well. 655 00:55:58,40 --> 00:56:00,72 It's a important thing that happened at G.M. 656 00:56:00,73 --> 00:56:03,33 And because what they did and it was very unfortunate they actually gave 657 00:56:03,34 --> 00:56:07,20 a seat on the board to the United Auto Workers and I think people should do what 658 00:56:07,21 --> 00:56:08,56 they're qualified for in 659 00:56:08,57 --> 00:56:13,85 a case of unions perhaps making concessions something like this. The chief 660 00:56:13,86 --> 00:56:20,80 executive is really his job is chiefly to execute the workers the workers. Workers 661 00:56:20,81 --> 00:56:27,19 job well the workers don't have a job anyway. No and that's a sad thing and 662 00:56:27,20 --> 00:56:33,97 a sad situation that goes back many many many many weeks. In 663 00:56:33,98 --> 00:56:37,28 fact here's an old ballad I wrote last week about this. 664 00:56:42,99 --> 00:56:49,98 One I will do more good. Made it wrong. Made it great against 665 00:56:49,99 --> 00:56:55,56 private. Once I built more than now it's. 666 00:56:56,80 --> 00:57:03,79 Brother and use. One soon Sharkskin 667 00:57:03,80 --> 00:57:09,59 Suit He looked around. The doodle they don't. 668 00:57:10,72 --> 00:57:11,25 Have 669 00:57:11,29 --> 00:57:17,95 a million the fools went and the dead have. I was the cat with the loan to. 670 00:57:19,62 --> 00:57:26,44 Say I don't remember they called may have Hank Larry and Tim. 671 00:57:29,13 --> 00:57:35,75 Remember. I'm your pal. Brother and use their. 672 00:57:36,89 --> 00:57:43,35 Time and. When citizens do fall. Triple lock my bill 673 00:57:43,88 --> 00:57:49,45 but some of my homeys are too big to fail. Supersize their bonus on the poor I'll 674 00:57:49,46 --> 00:57:53,47 put the onus anything to keep my brokers out of that. 675 00:57:56,07 --> 00:58:01,31 Precedent that failure of our national securities we must discover who could be to 676 00:58:01,32 --> 00:58:08,29 blame. Could be Obama's Osama or your mama. Heads 677 00:58:08,30 --> 00:58:13,87 we win tails you lose Main Street School but Wall Street rules want to purchase our 678 00:58:13,88 --> 00:58:19,44 paper please do I insist if you know my good buddy well default swap this. 679 00:58:21,79 --> 00:58:28,25 Post at the battle at Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. If there's no remaining 680 00:58:28,26 --> 00:58:34,14 capital what happens to our ism I never thought I'd ever see that day when 681 00:58:34,15 --> 00:58:35,28 government has 682 00:58:35,29 --> 00:58:42,28 a role to play but it's true we're all set we can watch oh wait is 683 00:58:42,58 --> 00:58:49,56 dead. And from but if not learn from our collapse. The security 684 00:58:50,02 --> 00:58:57,01 crap. How. Don't chill wind. Makes me 685 00:58:57,15 --> 00:58:58,90 happy. Like 686 00:58:58,91 --> 00:59:05,83 a land mine. A man wasn't. Really. In the 687 00:59:05,84 --> 00:59:12,37 oh so stern bear market. Bailout the banks suffer 688 00:59:12,38 --> 00:59:19,34 a bank don't gropes the economy has just lost one half of its worth and you call 689 00:59:19,35 --> 00:59:26,32 a lot of. Profits all gone it was the year of the Get 690 00:59:26,62 --> 00:59:33,23 Now it's time for socialism of the dead as for the paradox of the leveraging which 691 00:59:33,24 --> 00:59:39,90 lead to well go all the beverage. The way to explain it explain it to you nice is 692 00:59:39,91 --> 00:59:46,66 that the selling of trash God now. We need to clean 693 00:59:46,67 --> 00:59:47,94 plan not just 694 00:59:47,95 --> 00:59:54,21 a mean plan was penalized. For it. Have lost 695 00:59:54,59 --> 01:00:00,82 more then you more good move. Could have it's not like this guy's fault 696 01:00:01,79 --> 01:00:08,48 though it's true your roof is gone. All is not lost but as it says in 697 01:00:08,76 --> 01:00:14,74 the song that. Document. We are working on. 698 01:00:16,27 --> 01:00:20,96 There's no shortage of reportage on our mortgage meltdown so why not keep the next 699 01:00:20,97 --> 01:00:24,16 phase of the bailout on the down low you've never missed 700 01:00:24,17 --> 01:00:28,49 a million and you. Not spelled quite Sealion so why not leave it up to those who 701 01:00:28,53 --> 01:00:34,63 caused it those who lost it those who are close to it who believe in the American 702 01:00:34,64 --> 01:00:41,57 dream especially the part about the Ponzi scheme and the nation of whiners gets no 703 01:00:41,58 --> 01:00:45,74 golden parachute when we're through you will be lucky if you've got them birthday 704 01:00:45,75 --> 01:00:48,64 suit so we were all in 705 01:00:48,65 --> 01:00:55,49 a hypnotic trance from which with the collapse of the tallest tower. Well the 706 01:00:55,50 --> 01:00:57,23 world wasn't built in 707 01:00:57,24 --> 01:01:03,23 a day. And this country would train wreck but I feel 708 01:01:03,24 --> 01:01:04,42 a sudden need for 709 01:01:04,43 --> 01:01:11,82 a right piece of. The. Word 710 01:01:11,83 --> 01:01:18,58 I'm looking for. Drag not straight Have no 711 01:01:18,59 --> 01:01:25,31 fear we won't let it happen. This year. 712 01:01:32,39 --> 01:01:33,33 All that you carry. 713 01:01:41,39 --> 01:01:47,76 Of course all this was given at no extra charge to the new president in. Two minds 714 01:01:47,77 --> 01:01:48,82 about Mr O. 715 01:01:48,82 --> 01:01:55,59 . Actually I guess at last week with tongue. I mean obviously 716 01:01:55,60 --> 01:02:00,50 if if you fulfilled his campaign promises I'm against him. And he's already been 717 01:02:00,51 --> 01:02:07,07 building up many layers of federal bureaucracy and with this liberal storm trooper 718 01:02:07,08 --> 01:02:12,25 henchmen. Not true that he that's ridiculous more of 719 01:02:12,26 --> 01:02:18,67 a Marxist. Muslim. Marxist. 720 01:02:20,32 --> 01:02:23,95 You know ACORN All right yeah direct descendant of the S.S. 721 01:02:23,95 --> 01:02:30,55 . And you know when he was young he 722 01:02:31,07 --> 01:02:33,45 already was different from us you travel 723 01:02:33,50 --> 01:02:40,42 a great you. Travel Oh American that was good he traveled in cars some By 724 01:02:40,43 --> 01:02:41,54 the way I have proposed 725 01:02:41,55 --> 01:02:46,33 a new kind of. Alternative energy for cars I think they should do 726 01:02:46,34 --> 01:02:50,98 a wind powered car you know eight hours by the window from the car in front of it 727 01:02:51,60 --> 01:02:58,46 to kind of breath there in the Ponzi car thing. But you know I don't Obama has 728 01:02:58,47 --> 01:03:00,22 made some mistakes he's been pursuing 729 01:03:00,23 --> 01:03:04,55 a lot of things that aren't relevant to get him in trouble like gay marriage 730 01:03:04,56 --> 01:03:09,37 although I don't want to be insensitive you know or out of step I think everyone 731 01:03:09,38 --> 01:03:14,41 understands it's hard to be gay in America actually harder statistically then to be 732 01:03:14,42 --> 01:03:17,55 black in America think about this put you through another foot or you're putting 733 01:03:17,56 --> 01:03:23,99 somebody shoe or whatever you do out here you can feel. No listen 734 01:03:24,55 --> 01:03:29,36 think about this if you're black Actually you don't have to tell your mother. 735 01:03:30,74 --> 01:03:32,63 I think. 736 01:03:39,64 --> 01:03:46,53 But. They're getting in everywhere though the foreign minister of what's 737 01:03:46,54 --> 01:03:52,32 that little country Germany. Google Westerville he's one of them what kind of 738 01:03:52,33 --> 01:03:58,55 a name is We told that Italian gays are taken over Germany I tell you. It's 739 01:03:58,56 --> 01:03:59,13 a good thing we have 740 01:03:59,14 --> 01:04:04,00 a strong military don't. But I have next time I see him on it actually introduce 741 01:04:04,01 --> 01:04:05,34 him to Mary Cheney I think they have 742 01:04:05,35 --> 01:04:11,25 a lot in common. I hear wedding bells anyway. Obama has done something interesting 743 01:04:11,26 --> 01:04:15,79 and no president has done has actually acknowledged the participation of the US 744 01:04:16,15 --> 01:04:19,10 government in the process the project to get 745 01:04:19,11 --> 01:04:22,47 a new government going for Iran in one hundred fifty three and it would actually 746 01:04:22,48 --> 01:04:27,08 have Melissa that we fixed their wagon it was broken we fixed it and they've 747 01:04:27,55 --> 01:04:33,69 remembered it ever since that's fifty six years that act two acknowledgment and I 748 01:04:33,70 --> 01:04:37,78 think if he continues on this path he's going to have to acknowledge next year our 749 01:04:37,99 --> 01:04:42,95 our help with the Guatemalan change of government would be if you secured from for 750 01:04:42,96 --> 01:04:47,50 next year and and whoever is president in two thousand and twenty nine I predict it 751 01:04:47,51 --> 01:04:48,70 will be Obama because he's 752 01:04:48,71 --> 01:04:54,21 a young and. And he shook hands with Tavis so he wants to be president wherever. 753 01:04:55,35 --> 01:05:00,28 Twenty twenty nine he'll have to acknowledge. The participation in the help that we 754 01:05:00,29 --> 01:05:06,20 gave to Chile and of course the help of the enabling of the Israeli settlements in 755 01:05:06,21 --> 01:05:10,70 the West Bank in twenty twenty twenty fifty six twenty sixty three and twenty sixty 756 01:05:10,71 --> 01:05:17,67 five which is fifty six years from tomorrow. You know this all started 757 01:05:17,68 --> 01:05:24,61 in in forty five when we became. Empowered Superleague I would say some would 758 01:05:24,62 --> 01:05:28,26 say we became an empire I wouldn't go that far I think of us more as 759 01:05:28,27 --> 01:05:32,60 a benevolent. Dominate tricks sort of 760 01:05:32,61 --> 01:05:39,37 a thing. But. Whichever it may be we've got 761 01:05:39,38 --> 01:05:43,41 going in forty five and we were at it for until seventy eight when we took the 762 01:05:43,42 --> 01:05:49,47 Carter detour. And then we came back you know no one understands is better than the 763 01:05:49,48 --> 01:05:53,38 deejays they know that if you're born in forty five you turn thirty three and 764 01:05:53,39 --> 01:05:59,00 seventy eight very few people appreciate. The significance of that. 765 01:06:03,92 --> 01:06:08,85 Now at this time of an evening you're asking yourself How does he know. So it is 766 01:06:08,86 --> 01:06:14,81 that much I thought. How does he know so much you know and I do know 767 01:06:14,82 --> 01:06:18,78 a great many things some of them actually are true and it is 768 01:06:18,79 --> 01:06:24,45 a pleasure to be here and to share some of the others with you but but now I know 769 01:06:24,46 --> 01:06:29,17 a great deal I I read the internet everyday. Cover to cover. 770 01:06:33,23 --> 01:06:36,29 And that's how I know about health care and I know that we need an overhaul of the 771 01:06:36,30 --> 01:06:40,24 health care and I apologize that we had to destroy health care in order to save it 772 01:06:40,24 --> 01:06:43,20 . But I think we're going to see 773 01:06:43,82 --> 01:06:48,85 a significant partial moderate eventual change in that in the health care system 774 01:06:49,05 --> 01:06:53,64 and we will not settle for more and I'll tell you why because you cannot you cannot 775 01:06:54,07 --> 01:06:57,78 overhaul that is you're talking about one sixth of the economy you can't just 776 01:06:57,79 --> 01:07:03,56 overhaul that would be as if you were bailing out the banks or something. Though we 777 01:07:03,60 --> 01:07:08,29 have traditions the ways that we have been doing things and we can't give up for 778 01:07:08,30 --> 01:07:13,85 example the indentured servant to the health care to now corporations. Which is 779 01:07:13,86 --> 01:07:20,78 a very important tradition I do want to get the government out of my life. But not 780 01:07:20,79 --> 01:07:26,38 the police or the military. Or just I'm just talking about services for other 781 01:07:26,39 --> 01:07:33,22 people that on. Aren't me all of this of course is going to have an 782 01:07:33,23 --> 01:07:36,88 effect on the old folks but you know what they say about the system that's coming 783 01:07:36,89 --> 01:07:40,47 in for the old folks a grandpa. You had 784 01:07:40,48 --> 01:07:45,23 a good life. Dead animals in the sky. 785 01:07:54,25 --> 01:07:59,72 They want to kill me. With the public option they want to kill me if you cross 786 01:07:59,73 --> 01:08:04,80 don't get there first I want to kill all the babies in New York people to take away 787 01:08:04,81 --> 01:08:09,27 my choice of doctors like the current system new. Big government will tell me what 788 01:08:09,28 --> 01:08:15,85 I can do. Run my life thank you. All this. 789 01:08:20,31 --> 01:08:21,32 Came straight from. 790 01:08:29,19 --> 01:08:32,11 Fox. Just because it's. 791 01:08:39,73 --> 01:08:46,55 True. That 792 01:08:46,56 --> 01:08:53,34 immigrants mostly. Bankrupt gone hungry. Cause I got 793 01:08:53,76 --> 01:08:58,48 and. Taxes to help some. 794 01:09:04,04 --> 01:09:08,60 Tea. Party down with Big Pharma. 795 01:09:12,12 --> 01:09:19,07 She's in the White House preparing for the crime. You know Washington Obama's just 796 01:09:19,08 --> 01:09:24,14 like. He wants to give the. Penalty. 797 01:09:28,56 --> 01:09:31,00 Killing Jews unless they're very old but he's 798 01:09:31,01 --> 01:09:37,94 a Muslim and. So I'm told and I can tell because. One time he 799 01:09:37,95 --> 01:09:40,43 went to Egypt and not Israel that's it. 800 01:09:45,34 --> 01:09:51,64 Back there. Mark my words. 801 01:09:54,96 --> 01:09:58,29 Somebody beat him to it our ass is grass but I got. 802 01:10:07,67 --> 01:10:13,61 I'm going to Tea Party we'll all be equal in that place me and my boys from date. 803 01:10:22,47 --> 01:10:27,86 All right it's true that some of these things I'm saying are. False. But 804 01:10:27,87 --> 01:10:32,17 a government that supports abortion is bound to eventually support death panels. 805 01:10:33,62 --> 01:10:39,80 And if they disagree with me they will undoubtedly put me. Where I will continue to 806 01:10:39,89 --> 01:10:43,100 fight against big government with one difference I'll have health care yeah I got 807 01:10:44,01 --> 01:10:44,63 my out and. 808 01:10:57,68 --> 01:11:03,12 Well the difficulties in the in the economy lead to difficulties in the ecology of 809 01:11:03,13 --> 01:11:06,53 the if you ever noticed the ecology and you commie tend to grow into each other at 810 01:11:06,66 --> 01:11:11,96 the expense is really not room on this planet for both. People get all exercised 811 01:11:11,97 --> 01:11:13,34 about the climate change I've had 812 01:11:13,35 --> 01:11:20,35 a lot of discussion about this with. Yes. They came to 813 01:11:20,36 --> 01:11:25,96 me because I got up one morning and sidewalk and melted couldn't get to work. 814 01:11:27,69 --> 01:11:34,14 In some tree. But actually I explain to them you know global warming that's 815 01:11:34,15 --> 01:11:40,85 actually how we won the Cold War and. They didn't 816 01:11:40,86 --> 01:11:43,02 care not they should care it's becoming 817 01:11:43,03 --> 01:11:48,68 a smaller planet all the time that's what we need many new. And by the way. 818 01:11:49,87 --> 01:11:53,32 And I told him nuclear winter is going to take care of the global warming anyway. 819 01:11:55,30 --> 01:12:01,11 People say we don't plan we plan it socialism but we do it anyway. You know and 820 01:12:01,12 --> 01:12:06,64 then what's going to happen is that more and more of the people who aren't able to 821 01:12:06,65 --> 01:12:09,90 get the health care because their states have opted out of it are going to move to 822 01:12:09,91 --> 01:12:13,04 the coast and these are the people that are the blue people moving from the purple 823 01:12:13,05 --> 01:12:16,99 states of the purple states will become red to red people don't like purple beets 824 01:12:17,00 --> 01:12:21,24 too much like lavender forever. And blue people are going to go to coast are going 825 01:12:21,25 --> 01:12:24,90 to get very blue and in the water most milk that sidewalk going to come down is 826 01:12:24,91 --> 01:12:29,75 going to go up and there's going to be mass foreclosures on but only on the coast 827 01:12:29,79 --> 01:12:36,61 so it won't actually affect any American However. This is about the Greens desire 828 01:12:36,62 --> 01:12:39,59 to destroy our economy in order to save the planet and by the way these are 829 01:12:39,60 --> 01:12:44,90 extremist greens they want to save and get this the whole planet they don't need no 830 01:12:44,91 --> 01:12:51,41 compromising. With these people that's why I say green is the new rich but 831 01:12:51,42 --> 01:12:54,05 to I'm not anti environment I'm 832 01:12:54,06 --> 01:12:57,70 a moderate environmental and I believe in moderate clear cutting I support 833 01:12:58,05 --> 01:13:04,53 a moderate amount top removal which by the way is one of our great leveling forces 834 01:13:04,54 --> 01:13:09,77 in society. I support I support agribusiness as 835 01:13:09,78 --> 01:13:12,84 a solution you know if you don't all that people out here in the valley that 836 01:13:13,19 --> 01:13:17,95 provide us the canned food that we so love and. Then people are opposed to that if 837 01:13:17,96 --> 01:13:22,42 you want to go out your backyard and grow your own canned food well. You probably 838 01:13:22,43 --> 01:13:26,91 unemployed so. So that's all right but here's 839 01:13:26,92 --> 01:13:33,88 a statistic that might change your mind. We are actually here in North America five 840 01:13:33,89 --> 01:13:39,86 percent of the world's population and yet we consume twenty five percent of the 841 01:13:39,87 --> 01:13:46,62 world's resources. How cool is that. We're talking about 842 01:13:46,63 --> 01:13:51,94 American efficiency here and actually we thought you know being so efficient let's 843 01:13:51,95 --> 01:13:56,22 help them teach you know good golf with Playfish and see go out there and help 844 01:13:56,23 --> 01:14:01,48 everybody else to rise to our level of consumption Well we ran the numbers turned 845 01:14:01,49 --> 01:14:06,17 out there are actually only so many twenty five percent to go around well. 846 01:14:10,07 --> 01:14:15,37 So we're looking at teaching and to downsize less and the the experts on that the 847 01:14:15,38 --> 01:14:18,64 American worker out there and. Teach them 848 01:14:18,76 --> 01:14:24,46 a little conservation and waste well waste is not so important as the actually it 849 01:14:24,47 --> 01:14:31,12 turns out as environmental. Expert Dan Quayle has pointed out weight is 850 01:14:31,13 --> 01:14:37,69 a terrible thing to mind so. I do have to take issue with one thing agribusiness 851 01:14:37,70 --> 01:14:41,15 has none however and that is to convert corn into the use of the running 852 01:14:41,16 --> 01:14:44,82 automobiles of corn and then you go in and you get people who are hungry and they 853 01:14:44,86 --> 01:14:49,22 start looking the edges of the gas tank and this kind of thing even alcohol fuel 854 01:14:49,23 --> 01:14:55,54 that's long alcohol for people not for car I may even withdraw my proposal for the 855 01:14:55,55 --> 01:14:58,30 wind and wind powered car I don't know if you know it's 856 01:14:58,31 --> 01:15:02,23 a big environment out there but don't be discouraged because we're going to gather 857 01:15:02,24 --> 01:15:06,41 I think we're going to make it in human scale All right well I sense 858 01:15:06,42 --> 01:15:08,10 a general agreement in 859 01:15:08,11 --> 01:15:15,96 a group. So let's move on to Iraq if it's not out of it. I 860 01:15:15,97 --> 01:15:21,11 know many of you. Were surprised when we said that we were going there because 861 01:15:21,37 --> 01:15:24,63 Al-Qaeda was there and it turned out that they weren't and you probably thought 862 01:15:24,64 --> 01:15:31,55 that was some kind of mistake. We got there first. And on the way 863 01:15:31,56 --> 01:15:34,93 and we had several other reasons that we needed to go there and it was good that we 864 01:15:34,94 --> 01:15:40,51 did because it turned out that we had used them in succession actually but. Then 865 01:15:40,52 --> 01:15:45,40 comes in the Old Red Cross and says that we're engaging in you know enhanced 866 01:15:45,41 --> 01:15:51,49 creative conversations and this kind of thing folks what have I always said you're 867 01:15:51,50 --> 01:15:57,85 either with us or you're with the Red Cross it's really that simple. But. We did 868 01:15:57,86 --> 01:16:04,80 have of course also an exit strategy as you know Afghanistan and. Afghanistan 869 01:16:04,96 --> 01:16:09,56 you know it is not true actually what you have heard perhaps that Afghanistan is 870 01:16:09,57 --> 01:16:16,24 just past June for Vietnam that it is not there is no basis but now I grant you it 871 01:16:16,25 --> 01:16:22,97 is true that Pakistan is we're due for Cambodia that much is true. We 872 01:16:22,98 --> 01:16:29,93 know that many armies have come. From foreign lands to Afghanistan and 873 01:16:29,94 --> 01:16:35,35 all of them have succeeded in failing. But Obama brings hope. 874 01:16:37,21 --> 01:16:43,47 And surgical strikes. There is his health care for all one thing and 875 01:16:44,25 --> 01:16:46,56 I think he's got buyer's remorse or at the very least 876 01:16:46,57 --> 01:16:51,57 a sticker shock over Afghanistan and certainly he did try to trade it for Pakistan 877 01:16:51,58 --> 01:16:51,82 and as 878 01:16:51,83 --> 01:16:58,68 a Cash for Clunkers program but. A late and dollar short you know but there 879 01:16:58,69 --> 01:17:02,17 have been successes there we've been winning hearts and minds which I think has 880 01:17:02,18 --> 01:17:06,05 never been tried before anywhere and also there's 881 01:17:06,39 --> 01:17:09,05 a lot of jobs good jobs program did 882 01:17:09,06 --> 01:17:11,57 a great heartening of the armories and also of course 883 01:17:12,01 --> 01:17:17,70 a lot of work for folks in the think tanks where we mostly. Think about tanks 884 01:17:17,87 --> 01:17:24,66 anyway. It is said that actually our activities there are the biggest 885 01:17:24,67 --> 01:17:30,81 recruiter for. Al Qaeda and if that is true and al Qaeda goes belly up 886 01:17:31,49 --> 01:17:37,43 because we took all their work we will certainly bail them out but. Really the 887 01:17:37,44 --> 01:17:40,58 problem in Afghanistan is the same as the problem in the other countries is that it 888 01:17:40,59 --> 01:17:43,85 is too close to the Middle East which is 889 01:17:44,44 --> 01:17:49,91 a difficult very mysterious region it's not inscrutable that's for the read. 890 01:17:52,02 --> 01:17:58,93 But it is mysterious and people come to meet questions of his beloved. What is this 891 01:17:58,94 --> 01:18:02,76 about Palestinians how could there be Palestinians you know Palestine without I 892 01:18:02,77 --> 01:18:08,21 looked into this one myself turns out the Palestinians left some time ago and took 893 01:18:08,49 --> 01:18:14,78 Palestine with the now. Of course this was back when you were allowed for carry ons 894 01:18:14,80 --> 01:18:21,79 Clinton. Now turns out they want to come 895 01:18:21,80 --> 01:18:25,77 back technical term for this is the right of return and this will surprise you 896 01:18:25,78 --> 01:18:30,86 perhaps that I actually support it because of the precedent in the area the 897 01:18:31,20 --> 01:18:35,28 Israelites as you may know left and came back two thousand years later everything's 898 01:18:35,29 --> 01:18:38,15 been great so. So it's 899 01:18:38,16 --> 01:18:42,21 a good time table and it's available and and they can use that and while they're 900 01:18:42,22 --> 01:18:47,82 waiting their turn they could get ready to house the news could prepare for example 901 01:18:47,83 --> 01:18:52,06 work on civilizing themselves and they will tell you they're not civilized No I 902 01:18:52,07 --> 01:18:56,39 mean just the obvious example suicide bombing coming and they drop their bombs from 903 01:18:56,40 --> 01:19:02,73 airplanes like the blood the blood never can figure out but. It's difficult you 904 01:19:02,74 --> 01:19:06,60 need to balance their YOU NEED for example to balance the needs of the West Bank 905 01:19:06,66 --> 01:19:12,96 with see the needs of the World Bank which is not that easily done. But I think 906 01:19:13,73 --> 01:19:17,98 people can learn to appreciate each other's culture as the Palestinians for example 907 01:19:17,99 --> 01:19:23,10 are now learning to appreciate Israeli For example Israeli foods like Amish and. 908 01:19:24,79 --> 01:19:29,70 Israelis are adopting Palestinian customs such as having land and. 909 01:19:33,92 --> 01:19:37,72 So the mysteries are being exported for the Israeli they're working very hard with 910 01:19:37,73 --> 01:19:43,20 their learning to study tanks to figure out. What's going on down there Hamas 911 01:19:43,24 --> 01:19:47,76 persists in responding as they say to something that happened not recently but in 912 01:19:47,77 --> 01:19:51,19 one hundred forty eight now that's way in the past but granted it happened from one 913 01:19:51,20 --> 01:19:55,24 hundred forty eight to twenty ten but still we really need to stop living in 914 01:19:55,25 --> 01:20:01,85 a past induced future and also I have to say that. Hamas as you know is sponsored 915 01:20:01,86 --> 01:20:04,63 by Iran but it doesn't stop there Iran is actually 916 01:20:04,64 --> 01:20:09,99 a front for charges and. Chavez does anything if it helps sell them and of course 917 01:20:10,00 --> 01:20:12,80 says as we know that Fidel gets his orders from Hezbollah so. 918 01:20:17,41 --> 01:20:18,08 It's it's 919 01:20:18,09 --> 01:20:24,56 a very difficult situation and as we know Hezbollah takes orders from Mr Sileo who 920 01:20:24,57 --> 01:20:25,18 recently in 921 01:20:25,19 --> 01:20:31,55 a reckless move returned to the US even though he is perhaps not even the entire 922 01:20:31,56 --> 01:20:35,46 president anymore folks we can't all this return to 923 01:20:35,47 --> 01:20:40,73 a country just because we're the president. When I say we of course I mean airspeed 924 01:20:40,74 --> 01:20:46,11 but. You know what happened there on Honduras as you know was not 925 01:20:46,12 --> 01:20:53,06 a coup it was. Well it was a coup but not a military coup. OK it was 926 01:20:53,07 --> 01:20:59,84 a military coup but was put out was. Well that's one thing that 927 01:20:59,85 --> 01:21:03,10 enhanced conversation won't help us with and that shop it's all going to give you 928 01:21:03,11 --> 01:21:06,15 a little little help here we're going to have coming up 929 01:21:06,16 --> 01:21:13,08 a mandatory intermission. At that time we're going to. Encourage you to get 930 01:21:13,09 --> 01:21:19,41 up and stand up. For your rights or anything like that but. We do want you to feel 931 01:21:19,42 --> 01:21:25,69 free to buy everything in sight so. Through that door we will find. The many 932 01:21:25,96 --> 01:21:31,60 exciting and colon area items and drinks to imbibe the fellow is here with his. 933 01:21:32,75 --> 01:21:36,75 Political comic books because let's face it we're all graduates of the public 934 01:21:36,76 --> 01:21:41,83 schools most of us and. So there you have it and so he's got all that propaganda 935 01:21:41,84 --> 01:21:47,87 that he's got it right next to him as my table with the information. And. 936 01:21:49,13 --> 01:21:50,83 C.D.'s that I have there are 937 01:21:50,87 --> 01:21:57,40 a little different from some of yours there are other legal right. After 938 01:21:58,24 --> 01:22:00,80 that little little break we're going to have 939 01:22:00,81 --> 01:22:07,69 a nother singer up here to present an antidote to my balanced presentation and I 940 01:22:07,70 --> 01:22:13,88 guess that'll be the entertainment part of the evening. So you know if you do feel 941 01:22:13,89 --> 01:22:16,23 the need for another point of view please do stick around let's take 942 01:22:16,24 --> 01:22:17,19 a break you need. 943 01:22:18,78 --> 01:22:32,55 Thank 944 01:22:32,68 --> 01:22:34,78 you. Tonight we have with us 945 01:22:34,82 --> 01:22:39,73 a serious songwriter which toured internationally and has been banned in Teaneck 946 01:22:39,74 --> 01:22:45,47 New Jersey. He has also been banned from Yugoslavia on television remember you are 947 01:22:45,47 --> 01:22:50,63 . Not to mention American television he has been called a national treasure by 948 01:22:50,64 --> 01:22:55,58 a newspaper that has since folded. That was B.P.'s. 949 01:22:56,63 --> 01:22:59,52 Thanks and he once received 950 01:22:59,53 --> 01:23:04,05 a letter from an activist saying the dean felt that more harm than good could come 951 01:23:04,06 --> 01:23:09,40 from your visit here. Has been called the latter day Tom Lehrer and if it looks 952 01:23:09,76 --> 01:23:14,27 a Don Ho hybrid he's America's. Gay men 953 01:23:14,68 --> 01:23:25,10 thank 954 01:23:25,11 --> 01:23:31,57 you I want to go. Back to you no matter 955 01:23:32,20 --> 01:23:38,37 thank you thank you. 956 01:23:41,10 --> 01:23:42,53 Have often been mistaken for 957 01:23:43,60 --> 01:23:48,80 a folk singer because I carry around this thing that. Maybe I better get 958 01:23:48,81 --> 01:23:55,66 a folk song into the. Union. By the way I'm 959 01:23:55,67 --> 01:24:01,36 home was high school here. Certain ministers remember. 960 01:24:06,46 --> 01:24:11,76 Well first I want to welcome you know. Somebody who I haven't seen since because I 961 01:24:11,77 --> 01:24:16,85 flirted with her and it ended badly and here she is tonight. But she married 962 01:24:16,86 --> 01:24:20,61 somebody from Mira Loma where I went to school who was I don't know why you would 963 01:24:20,62 --> 01:24:24,06 do that. I'm sure is 964 01:24:24,07 --> 01:24:31,06 a fine fellow. And. Is Ms Rashid here tonight. All right the vice 965 01:24:31,07 --> 01:24:37,07 principal of marijuana but now not then things have improved he can't say that but 966 01:24:37,08 --> 01:24:43,91 I will. Be politic. And your sisters here and everybody got married. 967 01:24:45,80 --> 01:24:49,84 OK. I want to start with a folk song that's 968 01:24:49,85 --> 01:24:54,48 a goes back to the earlier part of the beginnings of the current economic situation 969 01:24:54,49 --> 01:24:57,31 which was in one nine hundred thirty and. 970 01:25:01,93 --> 01:25:02,17 It's 971 01:25:02,18 --> 01:25:10,47 a kind of. Had 972 01:25:10,48 --> 01:25:15,69 wanted to deny it. I mean you're being. 973 01:25:20,51 --> 01:25:22,86 What this country has come in to. 974 01:25:30,80 --> 01:25:36,27 Live and. The panic you. 975 01:25:39,14 --> 01:25:44,78 Can't. Get an unemployment getting worse ever day. 976 01:25:49,03 --> 01:25:49,98 All night long. 977 01:25:58,41 --> 01:26:05,12 The Lambo. Grand. Broken Man where the. 978 01:26:06,24 --> 01:26:12,69 Goodness knows but if you do sit in the street. You know. 979 01:26:15,95 --> 01:26:22,90 You're the expert at the new Great Recession so you can help me out with this. S 980 01:26:22,91 --> 01:26:29,45 U. M P three. Made this 981 01:26:29,65 --> 01:26:35,83 week so they can dispute was another word. You. 982 01:26:41,88 --> 01:26:48,82 Never. See the county but you. Do 983 01:26:48,83 --> 01:26:51,89 not use. My. 984 01:26:56,15 --> 01:26:57,46 Son as 985 01:26:57,47 --> 01:27:04,44 a radical group if we. Do. Use of this way look. 986 01:27:08,61 --> 01:27:15,42 When you first sent those songs are good. The 987 01:27:15,43 --> 01:27:20,44 hour. 988 01:27:24,79 --> 01:27:28,04 I do these things because people always try to get me to sing along these mind 989 01:27:28,05 --> 01:27:33,78 numbing things like. And I said no I'm going to give them something they can't sing 990 01:27:33,97 --> 01:27:39,61 so that's God that's a project that's the and by the way I came to this through 991 01:27:39,62 --> 01:27:45,99 a long long career. And other showbiz it's evolved into anti 992 01:27:46,03 --> 01:27:52,68 showbiz. Not necessarily on purpose. I started out I was on T.V. 993 01:27:52,69 --> 01:27:52,98 When I was 994 01:27:52,99 --> 01:28:01,17 a kid. My mother said Get down off of it so what was that. My 995 01:28:01,18 --> 01:28:01,85 grandfather gave me 996 01:28:01,86 --> 01:28:09,06 a lot of advice on this career but I continued in anyway. Funny 997 01:28:09,07 --> 01:28:15,43 guy he was ahead of the time. He said. It was. 998 01:28:16,91 --> 01:28:18,37 Going to be a lot of changes it had been 999 01:28:18,38 --> 01:28:21,46 a lot of changes when I asked him I said What did you have when you were kid 1000 01:28:21,47 --> 01:28:25,75 nineteen fifteen when you. Do I'm 1001 01:28:25,76 --> 01:28:30,89 a chronology guy I went to high school in the Crimean War so he was like I said 1002 01:28:30,90 --> 01:28:33,82 what toys did you have he said no. So there's 1003 01:28:33,83 --> 01:28:40,41 a lot of changes that. Turned out he was 1004 01:28:40,42 --> 01:28:44,84 Jewish and as it happened and honest deathbed he called for 1005 01:28:44,85 --> 01:28:50,50 a priest. My grandmother says you've done some weird things but ninety seven you're 1006 01:28:50,51 --> 01:28:56,86 going to convert. Is well somebody's got to die might as well be one of them. 1007 01:29:07,70 --> 01:29:12,15 But I got started writing songs about same time that I got involved right here in 1008 01:29:12,16 --> 01:29:16,79 Sacramento California with the farm workers at that time known at the National Farm 1009 01:29:17,07 --> 01:29:19,40 Workers Association before 1010 01:29:19,41 --> 01:29:23,74 a flock. And I'm dating myself because. It's hard to get 1011 01:29:23,75 --> 01:29:30,45 a date at my age but anyway. No So I was writing and saying Right over 1012 01:29:30,46 --> 01:29:35,32 here my band came to play for my mother's illegal social worker strike in Southside 1013 01:29:35,33 --> 01:29:39,49 part one hundred sixty six and she got fired now I have that effect on people 1014 01:29:39,50 --> 01:29:42,95 actually. About the newspaper they're both 1015 01:29:42,96 --> 01:29:47,24 a nice review I plainclothes clubs full I think this place looks solid but 1016 01:29:47,25 --> 01:29:53,74 a lot of clubs unfold after. I played in Yugoslavia so there you. Go but. 1017 01:29:55,31 --> 01:29:55,83 So I learned 1018 01:29:55,84 --> 01:30:00,71 a lot of travel around. I never made it to Afghanistan but I think I have figured 1019 01:30:00,72 --> 01:30:06,05 out that that if there's any way to make the Taliban look good. It's what we're 1020 01:30:06,06 --> 01:30:08,56 doing so here's a song about 1021 01:30:08,57 --> 01:30:15,45 a couple pieces that. Down. Almost 1022 01:30:15,46 --> 01:30:21,19 completely not. No one will be heard if you're out of town down the. 1023 01:30:23,06 --> 01:30:28,77 Stop the. Shoot down the. 1024 01:30:31,32 --> 01:30:37,11 Phone. Dial the White House tones tell tale Dow Jones the old bone. 1025 01:30:38,29 --> 01:30:44,05 Dismantle all across the. Child bust upon. The. 1026 01:30:50,60 --> 01:30:57,18 Bust of the bombs with. Which the middle class. 1027 01:30:58,91 --> 01:31:05,65 Disarmed the land mines and systems confined I don't be unkind they should at least 1028 01:31:05,66 --> 01:31:11,64 be fun and not one to. Dig up and. First to last do. 1029 01:31:14,14 --> 01:31:18,83 You mean the factory and. Do some. 1030 01:31:20,90 --> 01:31:26,99 Work and be more effective if we all do here we go forget the melody down. Almost. 1031 01:31:29,47 --> 01:31:34,79 No one will be using them now those sounds down the wrong. Stop that. 1032 01:31:36,51 --> 01:31:40,44 Will go. Down the drones. 1033 01:31:45,39 --> 01:31:52,35 Come help out in the long. Monologue close to my. Child 1034 01:31:53,03 --> 01:31:59,80 I love you all the same. Mr Cain you 1035 01:31:59,81 --> 01:32:00,75 must just. 1036 01:32:06,91 --> 01:32:13,44 A lot of. This. Is that. 1037 01:32:15,04 --> 01:32:20,77 I mean this and. Not trying to be kind. But on. 1038 01:32:25,79 --> 01:32:32,65 The low. You. Can 1039 01:32:32,66 --> 01:32:33,30 disarm. 1040 01:32:48,33 --> 01:32:55,17 A forward looking nation. Let's pause. To 1041 01:32:55,18 --> 01:33:00,96 remember the bad old days. To tell you stories. About Dick Cheney. 1042 01:33:02,57 --> 01:33:08,97 And all the good things. He has done. Thank. 1043 01:33:11,51 --> 01:33:15,28 God thank. 1044 01:33:20,77 --> 01:33:26,90 Our let's go forward President Obama I like the way that Sal change is going by the 1045 01:33:27,38 --> 01:33:34,18 amount everyone is shouting yes we can use. The Afghanistan war. 1046 01:33:35,21 --> 01:33:41,34 Was. All OK so I'm simplistic but. 1047 01:33:42,45 --> 01:33:45,50 I see a country I see a war I want out of country I'm 1048 01:33:45,51 --> 01:33:51,76 a quitter me and share. Oh so much income. 1049 01:33:56,18 --> 01:34:02,18 I have left area where I was for twenty five years you know the whole purpose of 1050 01:34:02,53 --> 01:34:07,22 straightens and in high school back in the old it here was to keep the revolution 1051 01:34:07,23 --> 01:34:14,21 from coming over the hill from the mayor. That's why they told me to leave. Go to 1052 01:34:14,22 --> 01:34:19,98 the Bay area this is so it. I was in North Carolina Arkansas I went to New York New 1053 01:34:19,99 --> 01:34:26,75 Jersey tri state area no one knows what the other state but they called it I'm. 1054 01:34:29,11 --> 01:34:35,52 Some guy up there nobody wants to look at Sen. We have seen so many changes and in 1055 01:34:35,53 --> 01:34:42,44 the time since I left Second I know in your capable hands. I think for 1056 01:34:42,45 --> 01:34:49,34 example that. Women got to vote with. I 1057 01:34:49,35 --> 01:34:53,83 think at others in great shifts and changes in consciousness I asked my mother if 1058 01:34:53,84 --> 01:34:59,18 she thought that all of our random outbursts and jail sentences over the years you 1059 01:34:59,19 --> 01:35:05,78 know we should get to Christmas letters and so graduate Harbor. This year got 1060 01:35:05,79 --> 01:35:11,54 a scholarship to this one and going to Paris and my parents what could we say if we 1061 01:35:11,55 --> 01:35:11,94 sent out 1062 01:35:11,95 --> 01:35:18,88 a letter. Or we got out of jail as you. Know. I said was it 1063 01:35:18,89 --> 01:35:22,75 worth it I mean I mean how bad was it did we completely waste our lives are we 1064 01:35:22,76 --> 01:35:29,70 waste are used to we know we made you old. She said no actually you change the 1065 01:35:29,71 --> 01:35:34,40 world. And this is from somebody who went to the thirty's so you can see she's seen 1066 01:35:34,41 --> 01:35:37,83 a number of different changes and I do think that today there is 1067 01:35:37,84 --> 01:35:40,78 a consciousness and it's civil rights movement and it's the women's movement and 1068 01:35:40,79 --> 01:35:45,14 it's the media that has been forced from below media always has to absorb 1069 01:35:45,15 --> 01:35:48,90 a lot of stuff that just can't manufacture it's not all Hannah Montana some of it's 1070 01:35:48,91 --> 01:35:55,65 actually real down to earth honest to God Miley Cyrus with the real do so 1071 01:35:55,66 --> 01:35:58,55 some of what we're doing in the alternative media that we're celebrating here 1072 01:35:58,56 --> 01:36:04,06 tonight actually forces the more mainstream media to spread and spread and and 1073 01:36:04,07 --> 01:36:07,10 let's just take music as an example and I'm just going to talk about this for 1074 01:36:07,11 --> 01:36:10,44 another just for about twenty minutes and then going to have 1075 01:36:10,45 --> 01:36:17,02 a concert you know what. In my day which was Tuesday 1076 01:36:17,84 --> 01:36:23,78 was. What we did out here in the suburbs and we were late I would have known if I 1077 01:36:23,79 --> 01:36:28,15 was ten years old I would have known that we were doing this was well I'll just 1078 01:36:28,16 --> 01:36:31,01 I'll just quote a little richard rhythm and blues got together had 1079 01:36:31,02 --> 01:36:35,54 a baby and called it rock N roll. And been some debate ever since whether it even 1080 01:36:35,55 --> 01:36:40,23 exists maybe it's just rhythm and blues for people that go to the other tower 1081 01:36:40,24 --> 01:36:46,59 records up there that's where that was. OK all right but but something happened 1082 01:36:46,60 --> 01:36:50,38 later with with hip hop and other developments were where the U.S. 1083 01:36:50,39 --> 01:36:54,26 Actually came more together and shared more and I think that as I observe young 1084 01:36:54,27 --> 01:37:00,50 people in this country that they are. Mostly getting along better now we have 1085 01:37:00,51 --> 01:37:04,04 segregated schools we have segregated places in this country but we do have people 1086 01:37:04,08 --> 01:37:09,26 come together and don't think about race all the time as I do I'm sorry out brought 1087 01:37:09,27 --> 01:37:12,66 up that way and I'm always looking out for things better or worse today every day I 1088 01:37:12,67 --> 01:37:19,05 get up. Well sometimes I don't get up. And I think that's progress but there are 1089 01:37:19,06 --> 01:37:25,83 some very serious recalcitrance in our populace shall we say and. This came to our 1090 01:37:25,84 --> 01:37:31,58 attention certainly in New Orleans. After the hurricane and and also in some other 1091 01:37:31,59 --> 01:37:36,48 areas not only in the south now happens in the north you may know that. The old 1092 01:37:36,49 --> 01:37:42,26 Saul what's what's between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Alabama. And so what 1093 01:37:42,27 --> 01:37:44,69 happened so it goes this is 1094 01:37:44,70 --> 01:37:49,79 a story that's actually from the south about the school that was integrated and yet 1095 01:37:49,80 --> 01:37:54,59 not entirely solely at the classrooms together but they had different trees to sit 1096 01:37:54,60 --> 01:37:58,64 under. Which was a challenge and led to 1097 01:37:58,94 --> 01:38:03,57 a national scandal that made us once again kind of an international laughingstock. 1098 01:38:12,96 --> 01:38:19,86 Everything was fine in Jena before you came along Michigan in Harlem and 1099 01:38:19,87 --> 01:38:26,78 all them around town. Rising tide lifts all boats Dave got all our homes everything 1100 01:38:26,79 --> 01:38:30,04 is fine. In Jena. 1101 01:38:36,10 --> 01:38:40,72 In a single saying no I didn't do what I can do you see if you live in 1102 01:38:40,73 --> 01:38:47,68 a nice. High Street. You relate it will come with generations you can call it 1103 01:38:47,69 --> 01:38:51,20 racist me live with these fine you know. 1104 01:38:57,14 --> 01:38:57,75 We don't have 1105 01:38:57,76 --> 01:39:02,94 a race problem here is not about color about crime and fear that once again the way 1106 01:39:03,15 --> 01:39:04,55 we sounds to me like 1107 01:39:04,56 --> 01:39:08,61 a crime spree I've said it before and I'll say it again I can end your life with 1108 01:39:08,62 --> 01:39:11,00 the stroke of pain news for you right. 1109 01:39:18,30 --> 01:39:22,82 Don't tell me you don't do the saying goes you New York bit differently Michaels 1110 01:39:22,83 --> 01:39:27,65 and Jay Sean Six Feet Under. So it goes that's 1111 01:39:27,66 --> 01:39:32,09 a situation you can't go there to resist nation everything is gonna. 1112 01:39:39,44 --> 01:39:44,66 Have an underground railroad now we'll move them here at home. Because it's going 1113 01:39:44,67 --> 01:39:50,93 to happen and he. Can't call it racist names when everything is fine. 1114 01:39:52,89 --> 01:39:56,34 Can't call it or is this nation and everything is fine it. 1115 01:40:06,14 --> 01:40:10,77 Was 1116 01:40:10,78 --> 01:40:17,61 a. Long time ago millennia ago actually one millennium ago 1117 01:40:18,69 --> 01:40:23,81 actually about sixty years ago you know different millennium poet name colors you 1118 01:40:23,82 --> 01:40:28,60 Brown wrote of other interesting pieces later picked up by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 1119 01:40:29,99 --> 01:40:36,82 It was interesting but it didn't run. Well getting updated it it was solid but it 1120 01:40:36,83 --> 01:40:37,67 needs a new reference 1121 01:40:37,68 --> 01:40:45,17 a social commentary poem and. Still didn't. Like 1122 01:40:45,18 --> 01:40:45,95 to cure this so this is 1123 01:40:45,96 --> 01:40:51,62 a collaboration between those two they don't know about security keep it. Down low 1124 01:40:51,62 --> 01:40:58,12 . Meanwhile comes along Martin email or. Pastor Martin e-mail or 1125 01:40:58,67 --> 01:41:00,08 in Germany writes 1126 01:41:00,09 --> 01:41:06,93 a piece that many of you be familiar with. For dinner so. I got 1127 01:41:06,94 --> 01:41:11,44 right on it I was doing nothing else and I thought you know what if I add 1128 01:41:11,45 --> 01:41:13,96 a third party to this I call it 1129 01:41:13,97 --> 01:41:19,47 a medley. I. Couldn't find anything else to steal so I had to write it but we. 1130 01:41:21,82 --> 01:41:22,13 Need 1131 01:41:22,14 --> 01:41:29,80 a nation whose people of. Temperance misdeed them off to the end of history. To 1132 01:41:29,81 --> 01:41:36,58 do the nation whose Peters. Was big and small air with preaching more fun. In 1133 01:41:36,59 --> 01:41:39,01 a Senate race is not always six 1134 01:41:39,02 --> 01:41:46,02 a phrase runs and say this. Aims to rule the world to force 1135 01:41:46,03 --> 01:41:51,58 untold. Knows no one no cold blooded soul. 1136 01:41:53,96 --> 01:41:54,20 In 1137 01:41:54,21 --> 01:42:01,14 a nation whose with his money and. Of the two will fit it in NATION 1138 01:42:02,02 --> 01:42:07,26 Opinion. They're right to be rude if. The. 1139 01:42:10,26 --> 01:42:15,44 Country. Of the. Street Land of Liberty. 1140 01:42:17,85 --> 01:42:23,72 First they came for coming to. I said nothing 1141 01:42:24,72 --> 01:42:29,15 because I. Never be. Harder. 1142 01:42:32,39 --> 01:42:38,51 Than they came for the union and I said nothing because I. 1143 01:42:39,82 --> 01:42:46,55 Knew you. And what charge could it bring. Then and he told 1144 01:42:46,56 --> 01:42:53,19 you. I did not speak good because I was not good to. 1145 01:42:54,40 --> 01:43:01,30 Me But what could one man do. When they came 1146 01:43:01,31 --> 01:43:08,30 for me. I said no you can't me. When 1147 01:43:08,31 --> 01:43:12,18 no one. Met me let me. 1148 01:43:18,81 --> 01:43:20,94 Speak. For me. 1149 01:43:39,83 --> 01:43:46,74 I didn't find. Fault full of Christians and. Christians 1150 01:43:46,75 --> 01:43:53,67 to see. Free will is trying to. Hide em 1151 01:43:53,68 --> 01:44:00,39 fight for all of us. When it should seem 1152 01:44:00,96 --> 01:44:07,33 to be said look to nothing to. Hide any fight 1153 01:44:07,56 --> 01:44:14,13 bullying. The company's head to. Head to see 1154 01:44:14,44 --> 01:44:18,30 very next day it was my home run amok. 1155 01:44:21,34 --> 01:44:22,49 And I don't like. 1156 01:44:29,03 --> 01:44:35,60 My fault you know. Told me I love you. And I don't but I 1157 01:44:35,61 --> 01:44:41,26 won't come even if their presidents tried to find. 1158 01:44:42,67 --> 01:44:49,02 The name of the. Little things. I've. Said 1159 01:44:49,95 --> 01:44:55,86 When my come to town. I don't come. 1160 01:44:57,58 --> 01:44:59,68 Back to you bring them down. 1161 01:45:07,78 --> 01:45:14,62 I didn't crown the Shah of Iran. But she means I didn't bank on 1162 01:45:14,63 --> 01:45:21,52 Franco of ten or any. I do know it will 1163 01:45:21,91 --> 01:45:28,87 show me one chip presidency and it. Will end when I went to you is shock 1164 01:45:28,88 --> 01:45:35,47 and I knew exactly what it was told. Prisons all over 1165 01:45:35,48 --> 01:45:42,38 the tend to my eyes. You may say this 1166 01:45:42,42 --> 01:45:47,84 pitting democracy it is just an IT guy. Said 1167 01:45:47,85 --> 01:45:54,60 a why they backed up Mr Ha. Ha. He had no 1168 01:45:54,95 --> 01:46:01,63 direct ties. All of my presidents. When presidents 1169 01:46:01,64 --> 01:46:04,39 stoop to conquer. I'm all. 1170 01:46:10,04 --> 01:46:12,21 Thank you. 1171 01:46:26,17 --> 01:46:33,12 I want to close up now with something I call on hope. That I can get it 1172 01:46:33,13 --> 01:46:39,08 out of the way and. That's my little ritual. Or. 1173 01:46:46,65 --> 01:46:49,67 US Social Forum in Atlanta Georgia and I met 1174 01:46:49,68 --> 01:46:52,91 a lot of very interesting people I know were out there doing quite interesting 1175 01:46:52,92 --> 01:46:58,56 things to grassroots level and. Coming up again in Detroit. 1176 01:46:59,68 --> 01:47:05,95 June try to make it if you can the three pictures of. This is 1177 01:47:05,96 --> 01:47:06,72 a story about 1178 01:47:06,73 --> 01:47:10,07 a time when I went out looking for peace and justice of gone over twenty minutes. 1179 01:47:13,28 --> 01:47:18,70 Well a good twenty minutes and twenty years actually I'm still out there and. It's 1180 01:47:18,71 --> 01:47:23,59 a long road and I have roaming around looking to stick it in the brambles looking 1181 01:47:23,60 --> 01:47:24,84 for people and I ran across 1182 01:47:25,83 --> 01:47:32,16 a descendant not of Thomas Jefferson but of one of his never free. Love slaves. 1183 01:47:34,10 --> 01:47:38,38 And she. She told me they. Want to turn on 1184 01:47:38,39 --> 01:47:45,62 a picture so I thought let me. Hear 1185 01:47:45,62 --> 01:47:49,28 . Something. 1186 01:48:01,50 --> 01:48:07,56 Social Contract. Becomes unnecessary change society for. 1187 01:48:09,11 --> 01:48:14,56 Dollars and homes can't get no health life is unfit who we know to help us so the 1188 01:48:14,57 --> 01:48:19,69 seeds of something better when I met. You vote that is which is. 1189 01:48:21,45 --> 01:48:27,44 Really the will. Of New York City we. Don't need any. 1190 01:48:29,64 --> 01:48:35,55 Business to set things right could be hiding in plain sight when we. Want. 1191 01:48:39,57 --> 01:48:45,53 We must get things done. Because we. Must 1192 01:48:46,42 --> 01:48:47,42 follow labor book and as 1193 01:48:47,43 --> 01:48:53,30 a community takes on the superior man of respect for the people who keep their 1194 01:48:53,31 --> 01:48:58,76 wages and treat for the same. Grassroots global justice outcomes of hope would all 1195 01:48:58,77 --> 01:49:03,49 once again since the one really was wait a minute that's how we make change for 1196 01:49:03,50 --> 01:49:07,83 a minute I forgot how to look at people and those who have not engaged in this 1197 01:49:07,84 --> 01:49:12,92 environment somehow got this funny idea people some part of some kind of five 1198 01:49:12,93 --> 01:49:19,29 minute round here Third World majority says we're not only held the right. To know 1199 01:49:19,30 --> 01:49:22,98 we have the responsibility to be the media don't you think that you should come for 1200 01:49:22,99 --> 01:49:24,80 years in the other parts of the last month 1201 01:49:24,81 --> 01:49:29,53 a better job of telling us what's going on in the US gringos a bit pissed off with 1202 01:49:29,54 --> 01:49:32,51 a chatty Cathy as well as. 1203 01:49:37,93 --> 01:49:40,93 When the C.E.O. Says you just gotta trust us got 1204 01:49:40,94 --> 01:49:45,92 a big laugh jump services bail out the rich they got the bonuses did you see when I 1205 01:49:45,93 --> 01:49:50,20 saw my head drop jaw we were both taking it and now the original. 1206 01:49:54,63 --> 01:49:56,44 Big. Wheels aside and you have come 1207 01:49:56,45 --> 01:50:01,14 a long train wreck straight ahead some of us have been out all along somebody doing 1208 01:50:01,15 --> 01:50:05,88 something wrong then there was children and old workers and said we have company to 1209 01:50:05,89 --> 01:50:06,64 continue that's 1210 01:50:06,65 --> 01:50:13,25 a good. Who cares about health care kids we can about immigrants we all share money 1211 01:50:13,29 --> 01:50:18,37 can do. Some people who have to have to live nobody loses. 1212 01:50:19,98 --> 01:50:24,18 Michigan welfare rights or the fight against privatization for or to hold water 1213 01:50:24,19 --> 01:50:29,79 rights like they didn't live by the way they want. To believe you can do in. 1214 01:50:30,80 --> 01:50:37,57 Michigan. Obviously need those defending 1215 01:50:38,55 --> 01:50:44,75 against education I see no. Reason to learn crossing we've got no freedom to hire 1216 01:50:44,84 --> 01:50:46,61 prospects we want the schoolhouse 1217 01:50:46,62 --> 01:50:53,55 a jailhouse check we want to take you to let. Me do what we. Want 1218 01:50:53,56 --> 01:51:00,56 I'll take the. Transition out of Louisville Kentucky to get what you need. 1219 01:51:03,32 --> 01:51:10,17 And you can stand. There who you can pick it up stand up against the South Pole was 1220 01:51:10,18 --> 01:51:14,14 a common human rights campaign says we have the right to complain about education 1221 01:51:14,21 --> 01:51:19,43 housing health care living wage it's all the rage it's the new black defendant 1222 01:51:19,44 --> 01:51:25,86 victims of man after welfare reform which taken together we're still in such chaos 1223 01:51:25,87 --> 01:51:27,83 decide we will not be 1224 01:51:27,84 --> 01:51:34,72 a serious threat we need power which we can only get from the bad. Person 1225 01:51:34,73 --> 01:51:39,15 some I'm a member of organizations. I'm missing 1226 01:51:39,16 --> 01:51:45,49 a few. Can't come up with something else such as you can look at. It again I'm 1227 01:51:45,50 --> 01:51:52,37 a human rights stop go. Slash members. Among his sisters and brothers hip 1228 01:51:52,38 --> 01:51:57,70 hop Congress says together in. Probably instead cell service to get over nasty 1229 01:51:58,11 --> 01:52:04,40 stuff. Will cause if it is he to. Do 1230 01:52:04,41 --> 01:52:11,22 a little thing oh so forget the moment. Just was. 1231 01:52:16,61 --> 01:52:22,61 Already inside. A couple of defending against pilot because. 1232 01:52:24,13 --> 01:52:26,42 He's coming. To do 1233 01:52:26,43 --> 01:52:33,35 a fiction. So I want to go out with indigenous women in. 1234 01:52:35,90 --> 01:52:37,33 Their workforces community. 1235 01:52:55,04 --> 01:52:55,59 When we want to. 1236 01:53:13,91 --> 01:53:18,39 Thank you so much. Thank. 1237 01:53:21,85 --> 01:53:22,80 YOU VERY MUCH PLEASE. 1238 01:53:46,81 --> 01:53:47,63 Remember one more for. 1239 01:53:57,79 --> 01:54:04,43 As for the kids. 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A small. 1266 01:57:39,55 --> 01:57:42,48 Thank you very much thank you so 1267 01:57:42,38 --> 01:57:42,80 MUCH much 1268 01:58:07,20 --> 01:58:07,20 . 1269 01:58:15,57 --> 01:58:20,59 Thank you thank you. 1270 01:58:21,65 --> 01:58:25,44 Alex. 1271 01:58:28,06 --> 01:58:34,25 Thank. Independent media is the hope.